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Review: “A CHRISTMAS CARROT”

By DC Shorts on January 25, 2009 6:03 PM | Comments (0)

Director: Shawn Wines
Running Time: 11 minutes
Genre: Comedy
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Sometimes it takes a little while for a film to grow on its viewers. What starts off as strange and highly inappropriate can suddenly and inexplicably turn into extraordinary humor. Director Shawn Wines’ A Christmas Carrot employs gross out humor in what is somehow an incredibly innocuous fashion, one is mystified and amused but somehow never disgusted at the title’s carrot which finds itself embedded in protagonist Ramona’s vagina.

No, the stated plot is not a typo, and as in the film itself, it will take a few minutes to process. You will never look at female masturbation the same way again as Ramona attempts to dislodge the carrot and avoid what appears to be the most archetypal of teen angst families complete with clueless parents, a self professed teenager expert of an uncle and a senile grandmother obsessed with her time in ‘the war.’ That being said, Gamma, as Ramona calls her, is by far the strongest and funniest character, a graying version of ‘kids saying the darnedest things.’

Ramona herself is as postmodern as they come, vegan and astutely superior of the myopic world from which she tries to escape from the earliest moments of the film. Audiences might be tempted to share her pain because as strange as the film is, there is a level of disconnect that takes a while to breach before one can realize just how funny the short actually is. Once the realization is made, hysteria will ensue if for no other reason than it appears to be the only way to fully comprehend the film, as sheer lunacy and detachment from our own sphere of the world.