Warning: this is an infuriating film (SPOILERS)
Watching Syrup is an exercise in futility from beginning to end. First, there is Scat, who single-handedly comes up with every brilliant new product and marketing campaign throughout the film, yet NEVER defends this fact, and simply allows everyone around him to steal the credit. Then, there is Six, who is little more than a narcissistic user, and who is so emotionally damaged that she cannot even admit her real name to the one person that actually loves her, and more importantly, on whose coattails she has ridden to the top. Furthermore, the idea that a company should or would be held responsible, in any way, for the death of some idiot who killed himself over not being able to buy an energy drink (WTF!!) is so laughably absurd. In the end, the only character worthy of even a shred of our sympathy is Scat, but even that becomes a difficult task after suffering through 90 minutes of his incessant whining over a woman who did nothing but use him. In the end, I was left wondering what the point of it all was. Everything about this story was just so depressing and cold-hearted.
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