Watch short film starring Kanye West directed by Spike Jonze (Where The Wild Things Are)

UPDATE: Kanye is sorry he had 2 take it down :(

Wow, just watched this short film - it's 11 minutes long - and the mind is flowin'. I'll start you off with a synopsis and what looks to be a personal review from someone at the L.A. Film Festival first though (shouts 2 Y2K).

Synopsis:

Kanye West was rolling deep at the Los Angeles Film Festival tonight, surprising the audience with the premier of a short film by Spike Jonze called We Were Once A Fairytale.

In the film, Kanye plays himself drunk at a club acting belligerent and boastful, telling starstruck club-goers that the song playing in the club is his. He wanders into a side room where he encounters a beautiful woman. They start having sex and then he passes out on her leopard print dress. When he comes to, he finds himself in the VIP room with his pants down - he was hallucinating and fucking the pillow. The realization startles him and he rushes to the bathroom where he vomits what look like rose petals.

Then it gets weird.

Kanye finds a bowie knife in the bathroom and cuts into his stomach, spilling a torrent of more petals. He digs in the knife deeper and then with his hand rips out a small furry rodent, like a demon, only its quite cute. When Kanye realizes it's connected to him with an umbilical cord, he pulls it hard, ripping it out of him for good. He then puts the demon on the sink and hands him a tiny bowie knife to fit the critter's scale who then uses it to commit hari kari.

The short, written and directed by Spike Jonze, walks the fine line between self aggrandizement and self mockery that runs through all of Kanye's endeavors. But the filmmaking is on point, with cinematography and sound design that authentically renders that feeling of being really disoriented in a nightclub. One doesn't need to love Kanye to love the film, but the Jonze short takes what people love and hate about Kanye's persona and then pushes it into a new, trippy realm. And in case you're wondering, the answer is no, Kanye still can't act. The film features the song "See You In My Nightmares" from 808s & Heartbreak, remixed and pretty severely tweaked by Spike Jonze's brother and N.A.S.A.'s Squeak E. Clean (Sam Spiegel).

Ok, my thoughts? Odd? Certainly. In fact, that goes without saying based on just the synopsis. Watching the film from start to end is a whole 'nother experience. It's weird 2 see a drunken Kanye (nope, not going there..) grace the film's first few minutes lost and disoriented in a club with "See You In My Nightmares" playing. He actually has some hilarious moments during this scene. Maybe it's just my odd sense of humor, but I was rolling whenever Kanye was uncontrollably yelling that 'this is my song!'. It clearly set up what was about to transpire, which is where the film becomes powerful. And before I go any further, the synopsis' description of the filmmaking was on point - the sound design, especially. Those effects greatly contributed to the experience for the viewer to actually believe that Kanye was in that club and on top of that, disoriented.

But the bathroom scene that concludes the film was shocking, thought-provoking, intense, dramatic, imaginative, and open to interpretation as no words were even spoken. The imagery with the roses spewing out of Kanye's insides and then the little demon's hari kari was simply vivid and powerful. I interpret it as Kanye eradicating his inner demon, one that has perhaps eluded him in the past and now was finally able to hone in on and control. Not sure if there's a right or wrong answer but I would be intrigued to hear writer/director Spike Jonze's explanation as well as Max G.'s thoughts (cause this film is right up his alley) and of course YOUR thoughts :D

Finally, there's some more tracks to be had from what was a busy weekend for me personally. I know some of ya'll are just scrollin' for the *Tibs Fav.™ stamp (haha, gotcha!) and the three that I liked in this batch had some R&B flavor as Shonie & B.o.B. link up for their 2nd collaboration over a well-produced Jim Jonsin joint and Chicago's One Chance goes in on an original beat from one of my favorite uptempo R&B producers - Usher's lil' bro J. Lack. But what honestly steals the show is the addicting "I Got You" - the latest Echo leak from Leona Lewis. People, she can flat out sing! This is a guilty pleasure song so maybe give this one a shot even if it isn't traditionally 2 ur taste. Enjoy!