That fight, coupled with the text thread, digs itself into Richard’s mind so that even after they make amends, it still bothers him. But none of them do.Ī couple weeks ago, Sasha and Jonah got into fight at a party. Jonah hurts his wrist with his flimsy gut punch and Sasha smashes Richard’s face to the point he wants to puke. Once out at sea, they decide to go Even Stevens and both Jonah and Sasha get to punch Richard. Richard decides to take them out on a day cruise on his boat which is named The Naughty Buoy. He tries to make up for his temper and constant fuck-ups by spending excessive amounts of money on his friends. This is Harpoon: a movie about an item that’s not actually a harpoon, but a speargun a movie about these three friends that’s actually not about them, but about toxic masculinity and friendships.Īfter this bloody dust-up, Richard feels bad and does what Richard does best. This is our Narrator (Brett Gelman): a Ron Howard-in-Arrested-Development-style-Omniscient-God who knows everything there is to know about our terrible protagonists and slyly and darkly hilariously doles out witty bon mots about their predicament. She is currently trying to pull Richard off Jonah, who is now bloodied and bruised, and informs him that the text thread he saw was about Richard’s birthday gift: a harpoon. She has a car named Ziggy Cardust and her relationship with Richard is strained because of a specific event that happened last year. This is Sasha (Emily Tyra): Richard’s longtime girlfriend or, as the narrator calls her, his longtime partner. And he immediately punches Jonah in the face when he answers the door, resulting in a multi-room fight that’s only broken up because Richard’s girlfriend shows up and intervenes. He’s calling Jonah because he’s driving to Jonah’s parent’s house after finding a text that suggested Jonah and Richard’s girlfriend fucked each other. This is Richard (Christopher Gray): Jonah’s best friend for years. He even sent them on a wine trip…where they were unceremoniously killed in a traffic accident. He was never close to his parents, even though he tried to engage them in a variety of ways. Jonah feels like the world is constantly against him. This is Jonah (Munro Chambers): He’s packing up his late parent’s house. ![]() That’s the kind of friendship on display here. The types of friends who you were once close with but grew in different directions the kinds where you’re still friends who act close just because…well…because. ![]() As our narrator tells us, Aristotle determined there were three types of friends you will meet in life:īut the narrator offers up a fourth type of friendship that I can’t really argue with: Friendships of history.
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