I Don't Need To Know
2023 · 4m · USA
Directed by Erin Murray
Tones: darkly comic, humorous, tense
A girlfriend asks her boyfriend what he likes in porn. He flinches. The next four minutes are the wall going up, cut to a bouncy electronic score.
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Four minutes, one conversation, one flinch — this is the correct dosage for this premise. Anyone who thinks they need ninety minutes to film a man getting uncomfortable hasn't watched many men get uncomfortable.
A bouncy synth score gleefully tracking a man's mounting panic as the editorial commentary — Joanna Arnow writing a Nathan Fielder sketch is a precise four-minute proposition.
The bouncy synth score doing all the editorial commentary on a man's mounting panic — turning insecurity into a percussion solo is sharp formal jujitsu. Four minutes is exactly the right runtime for that joke. Page blocked but conception is clear.