RABID GOAT đBy collapsing the gap between mythical beast and billion-dollar startup, #AlexScharfman offers a bleakly comic but urgently political parable about a system that will, given the chance, monetize even the last flicker of wonder in the worldâright up to (and including) the moment of its extinction. #DeathOfAUnicorn https://boxd.it/aS6po1
A â â â Âœ review of Death of a Unicorn (2025)
The Unicorn Invasion Well before the opening titles finish bleeding pastel blood across the screen, Alex Scharfmanâs âDeath of a Unicornâ insists on being read as more than a quirky eco-horror. It is a text obsessed with extractionâof resources, of symbolism, of labor, and finally of value itself. The filmâs surface narrativeâfather-daughter entrepreneurs (Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega) who accidentally run over a literal unicorn and try to monetize the carcassâinvites obvious readings about the violence humans inflict on nature. Yet Scharfman folds a second, slyer register into the diegesis: the Silicon-Valley definition of a âunicornâ as a privately held
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