Happyend (2024): Review

Stub • 170 Words • Film, 2026 • 02/06/2026

⚠️ This post contains a rougher cut of my thoughts on the topic and may be updated in the future. Please forgive any mistakes or lack of polish!

Friends Yuta and Kou, about to graduate, sneak into school. They pull off a terrible prank and face unforeseen consequences as graduation approaches.

There are 195 words in this article, and it will probably take you less than 1 minute to read it.

This article was published 2026-02-06 00:00:00 -0500, which makes this post and me old when I published it.

i’m not so sure if i’m all that interested in portraits of youth (as of rn at least) i am not so far removed from it and don’t feel too much nostalgia to high school years at least

  • maybe it is the parts about forging identity and awkwardness that i don’t like as much
  • i do like inner child type stuff with whimsy and all that but that is a lot more far removed from teenage stuff
    • childhood versus adolescence

some themes:

  • youthful innocence
    • EDM
    • pranks
      • not super mean spirited
      • they’re good kids just some youthful rebellion at a old person who is a bit of a dick
    • platonic love
    • romantic love/interest
    • protest and loss of hope for your own generation’s passivity (meditated via tech burnout)
    • fracturing of friends as move into/through future
      • tom moving to america post-grad
    • parental relationships
  • rise of facism
    • anti immigration sentiment
    • politics happening at people and passivity through the news
  • technology, surveillance, and social credit
    • panopty — not subtle haha but high tech
      • for “safety”

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