Kanye & Spike Jonze Drop Crazy New Mini-Movie (Watch)

Kanye West's been largely absent from the public eye since Taylor Swift-gate, but he's making his first appearance of sorts in weeks with the release of "We Were Once a Fairytale", a short movie he made with experimental movie and music video director Spike Jonze. This video's likely to get pulled at any moment, so watch it while you can.



The Refined Take:

1) Kanye's been ridiculed repeatedly for taking himself too seriously (see South Park's classic Fish Dicks episode), but here he seems only too willing to use his oversized ego as fodder. If the video has an overall theme, it's that Kanye's ego and fame have made him an isolated and almost tragic figure unable to actually connect with another human being.
2) Jonze is famous for his captivatingly weird work (aka his genius movie "Being John Malcovich") so it's no surprise that "We Were Once a Fairytale" has a claustrophobic, jittering style and ends the intensely bizarre way it does (I won't spoil it in case you haven't watched the video yet).
3) You know what, screw that. You should have watched the video first. If I can get my amateur film critic on for a sec, I can only imagine that we're symbolically witnessing Kanye's inner demon being killed when the little creature commits suicide (at his insistence), though I'm gonna have to take a little while to ruminate on that one.
4) F**king fascinating. Just absolutely, f**king fascinating.