Here It Is: My Favorite Video Of 2016: Of 2017: Of All Years: Of All Time

Well, here it is, my favorite video of 2016 that I discovered yesterday. My fucking god, this is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. This could be the best video of the decade. It is the definition of must-watch times a BILLION. Every time I watch this video, I find something else that’s amazing.

To be honest, I don’t even know where to start. There’s so much going on here. Let’s do a list!

The obvious, we’ve got Mom shooting her kids’ cellphones with a shotgun. Not much else to say here, but between her outfit, her wrist brace/ammo holder, and well, the shooting, it’s fair to say she absolutely nails it. 

Mom’s speeches are unbelievable. She drops gems like, “I take back my fucking role as parent” and, my personal favorite, “I refuse to be cursed”, while striking various power poses and being shit talked by her children. I don’t know who wrote this speech, but goddamn, well done.

The directing is top notch. Her shotgun shells aren’t the only shots Mom’s putting on target, she’s also crushing her film shots (yeah you see what I did there). It’s not enough to be shooting cell phones, dispelling her children’s demons through a speech that wouldn’t seem out of place at an exorcism, and striking the most ridiculous poses of all time, Mom’s also directing this entire project. “Now get a shot of them over there”, she tells her lens-wielding servant, who I assume is either another of her children or her husband, as the camera swings around to capture the look on her kids’ faces as Mom lines up to execute their phones by shotgun for a second time. This is cinematography at its finest. 

The hammer swing. Good god, nobody has ever looked less athletic or less intimidating while swinging a sledgehammer than Mom here. I’m sorry, but it was the least menacing hammer swing in recorded history. In any other project, that should have been left on the cutting room floor. But in this project, it stays, and it slays.

The dog. This might be the most oblivious dog in the history of the world. Just walking through Mom’s line of fire, absolutely ignoring all context, totally unaware of the situation, loving life, and most of all loving the camera. The dog may just get best supporting actor/actress in this one.

All in all, we’ve got to give credit where credit’s due: just a superb effort by Mom here. She absolutely nails all aspects of the shooting, I assume writing, delivery of lines, and hammering. She absolutely carries this video from start to finish, and I can only hope to see more of her work.

I should give an honorable mention to the kids. The two of them just watching in silence like this is the thousandth time Mom’s done this, while the third talks an extraordinary amount of shit is just hilarious. Well done, well done all.