Abe doesn't feel like a man, although he has clearly reached the age where he should. He notices that other cultures have rituals that bring people into adulthood and decides to borrow elements from each. He decides to fast for 3 days, go without sleep and then get circumcised. A documentary crew follows his journey into adulthood.
Described as a horror movie by another review, this is far from being that (did the guy even watch the same film as me?). Instead the story follows a guy confused by his own lack of maturity. He, as many of us feel, doesn't know when he's supposed to go from child to adult he doesn't feel like he's grown up or suddenly got older. This deals with the fact that modern society doesn't have any rituals etc to give us this hand over and that we have to deal with it ourselves.
However the film makes it's point that we rituals don't provide maturity or create adults this comes with time and with actions as we change our thoughts and life to a more mature setting. Abe is almost a child in his excitement about his ritual and cannot see that it is affecting his relationship with his girlfriend (to name one). His fate after reaching adulthood tells us that he has acted like a child and his selfishness has lost him his relationship and only caused pain. The point being that there is no switch that suddenly flicks in our lives that makes us adults and makes us suddenly feel grownup or responsible. It is a difficult age I'm 25 and don't feel much different from when I was 18, despite owning my own house, having a job and being married! The lesson of Abe's story is that we must deal with the transition ourselves it happens gradually overtime, we can't force it to happen.
The film is short and witty, it is a little hard to watch maybe when he's getting cut (!) but it is in no way gory or a horror movie. Instead it is a intelligent comment on a stage of life that rarely gets tackled directly when do my slacker years end and my adult years begin?
This is well worth a watch don't let anyone put you off it by describing it incorrectly watch it and take your own lessons from it.
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