A man frantically dumps a body after committing an accidental murder, frightened he rushes home only to find a large ominous wooden Box on his doorstep.
This is pretty enjoyable if somewhat flawed. This works best of its atmosphere and build-up, letting events unfold at a decent enough clip that his emotional journey throughout here leas to his own undoing. Seeing the emotional turmoil and grief from his past manifest itself as a terrifying figure found inside a box that comes into his life and disrupts everything gives this some incredible weight and depth that gets explored quite nicely. The back-and-forth inner dialogues he has about what to do and how to get rid of it further his descent into madness just as much as the frantic reactions to whatever's inside, which is made all the better with the fleeting glimpses that are shown which offer up the question of whether or not its all real or in his head. These make for a lot to like about it.
That said, the short does have some issues. Chief among them is the fact that it's nearly impossible to tell what's going on here as the scattered storyline isn't told clearly at all. It shifts back-and-forth fleshing out what happened at various intervals and periods throughout here which can make for an exhausting series of mental gymnastics trying to make sense of what's going on. As we're just thrown into everything at the beginning with no clue or context of anything, that makes what's going on all the more difficult to understand, and with the full context only hinted at in terms of the potential revenge motive behind the box this can make for an extremely challenging and confusing watch.
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