Get Milk
2024 · 3m · UK
Directed by Andrew Day
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, tense
A father steps out to get milk, but his two young daughters suspect he has something more sinister in mind. They follow him, taking a shortcut to intercept him, uncertain of what they'll discover.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Three minutes of two daughters suspecting their dad of something during a milk run — punchy length, ambiguous premise, no time to get cute. I'll allow it.
Three minutes of children reframing a parent's mundane errand as suspense — Wasp-adjacent in instinct, compressed almost to vignette. The brevity is either discipline or evasion, hard to tell from the page.
Three minutes reframing a mundane dad errand through suspicious children's POV is a perfectly scaled high-concept — the runtime exactly matches the conceit. Whether the experimental tag earns itself or just papers over a thin idea depends on the camera language of the chase.