Bo Burnham: Inside
THANK YOU Bo for having an intermission in your special.I don't care how long a movie is, it always needs an intermission. I do not have the patience to sit still in my room for more than an hour at a time. At a certain point I need to get up and stretch my legs, go to the bathroom, maybe get some food and make myself some coffee. Why we ever stopped with it in the first place is beyond me, it's pretty heavily documented that the younger generations has a very decreased concentration span.
Moving on from that digression though, this special is truly ... special! Usually when celebrities do stuff like this, y'know, try to relate to us being stuck inside while sitting in their multi-million dollar mansion, it just comes across as disingenuous. Bo, however, manages to do it perfectly and manages to make us, or me atleast, sympathize heavily with him.
I didn't exactly laugh my ass off, but it felt very genuine, creative, heartfelt and sad. The camera work and cinematography in Inside is the best I've seen in any special, and the fact that Bo Burnham did it all by himself is extremely impressive. I think that when this pandemic is finally fully behind us, this will be one of the finest pieces of art to come out of it.
I hope you're doing better now Bo.