6/1/2025
oh boy this one hit way too close for home. So recently I watched shiva baby with a good friend of mine and I think it broke us.
And just to get it off my chest so I can focus on this review, Rachel Sennott is so hot. I would say that it was distracting, and yes, but honestly I think that added to my enjoyment of the movie or else it would have been too excruciatingly awful (positive) for me to watch.
From the awkward comments about weight, to the questions of career choices, to constantly trying to be set up (for just about anything), this movie is so uncomfortably real. The building stress and dread throughout the movie, accentuated by the amazing soundtrack, building to the breakdown scene with the baby. The frantic running around trying desperately to drag your parents out. Delicious, juicy, absolutely fucking decadent, the catharsis: immaculate.
Now to get on to that gay shit. What the fuck Shiva Baby? I mean this in the nicest way ok, but as someone who is still recovering from a breakup with someone from a very similar family background to me, don’t give me hope like that, brother I can’t handle it. But in all seriousness, the scene where Danielle (Rachel Sennott) get’s stabbed by a screw and Maya (Molly Gordon) is trying to investigate the wound while there parents watch nervously from outside. As a D1 bisexual disappointment, I approve.
I think for jews, asians, and whatever the hell I am, this movie was just beat the emotional hornet’s nest into a verifiable pulp. 10/10, would let ruin my life again.