The unicorn, both fabulous animal and spreadsheet phantom, becomes a dialectical figure: it embodies capitalism’s capacity to conjure value ex nihilo while simultaneously disclosing the corporeal ruin that makes such conjuring possible. #DeathOfAUnicorn https://boxd.it/aS6po1
boxd.itA ★★★½ review of Death of a Unicorn (2025)The Unicorn Invasion Well before the opening titles finish bleeding pastel blood across the screen, Alex Scharfman’s „Death of a Unicorn“ insists on being read as more than a quirky eco-horror. It is a text obsessed with extraction—of resources, of symbolism, of labor, and finally of value itself. The film’s surface narrative—father-daughter entrepreneurs (Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega) who accidentally run over a literal unicorn and try to monetize the carcass—invites 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 “unicorn” as a privately held
