This film is pure anxiety. A stressful experience.

Social Anxiety: The Movie It's drama but it's quite horrifying I felt claustrophobic, stressed, uncomfortable, embarassed and awkward - just like family gatherings usually are. Seeing people you'd prefer not to see, old people asking how your life is going and what your plans are for the next fifty years, got a relationship? got a job?... I found it very competent at capturing that. The love triangle/coming of age stuff was well done too, it's not usually my cup of tea but I was invested. It's done in a single location, has a short runtime and the pacing was great. Amazing acting, the camera close-ups help create a claustrophobic watch and the score was superb and kinda horrifying it could have been in a horror movie. Very tense and engaging. That was a wild funeral! To anyone who enjoyed this, watch *Krisha* (2015) it's very similar.

Not my cup of tea. Some funny moments but maybe I wasn't in the mood for this movie 🤔

Like Uncut Gems with much lower stakes, Shiva Baby is a social anxiety sufferers worst nightmare. The comedy didn't fully connect for me with the good gaffs being spread a little too thin, but it never felt overly drawn out or meandering. Has the trappings of a Napoleon Dynamite-style cult following movie, but just didn't ring enough of the right bells for me to consider this "memorable". Far from bad, but not much more than good.