I accidentally stumbled across this short on the Sundance Channel a few minutes after it began, having heard nothing about it beforehand. I found it so convincingly staged and acted that for a while I honestly wasn't sure whether or not DELUSION... was for-real or a mockumentary. See, I've known plenty of people as angry, self-absorbed, and pretentious as the body-art-obsessed protagonist, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if some doofus with too much time on his/her hands might seriously decide a bullet hole is just a really extreme form of body-piercing. The gag is pulled off beautifully, managing to be both realistic-looking and steeped in gallows humor (pulled off with the straightest of faces, making it all the more effective). Even the shooter laughing as Mr. Body Art is rushed off in a waiting ambulance didn't shatter the mood for me, since someone who'd really do something so nutzoid would probably find the humor in it much like veteran doctors do (at the very least, the guy might laugh just to release his tension). In fact, what finally convinced me once and for all that DELUSION... was indeed a put-on was the fact that neither the protagonist nor the shooter ended up in police custody! :-) If you've lost all patience with self-centered types who get tattoos or scar themselves more to shock others than as a form of artistic expression or a cry for help, DELUSION... will have you laughing evilly. Enjoy! :-)