What's in your Bag?

Directed by Béla Baptiste

It starts, predictably, with the benign. An interview, a celebrity with effortless charm, a designer bag, and the familiar ritual of personal revelation in this “inside look” series – shallow as it is invasive. The host’s expectation for sanitized intimacy is soon subverted, as a polished, white smile transforms into something far more dangerous. With a jarring laugh, the actress removes not a lip gloss, nor a compact, but an ASP baton. She laughs, still performing for the camera, then strikes the host violently. This isn’t merely a shock. It’s a coup, an overthrow of the modern internet theater’s safe spaces and a descent into total rupture. The viewer is helplessly ensnared in the chaos, a witness unable to turn away.