I Got This
2018 · 22m
Directed by Erik Bork
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, tender
Told his daughter may not be biologically his, a devoted father sets out to DNA-test every other man who could be, one awkward encounter at a time.
Picked by Zoe
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The premise is absurd enough to work—a man DNA-testing his way through town like some paternity-obsessed detective—but the film refuses the easy satirical kill and gets genuinely tender instead, which is either gutsy or misses the real subversive joke.
Bork threads a formal tightrope between the sitcom machinery of repeated encounters and the weightier tradition of domestic crisis narratives, landing in a surprisingly earned emotional register that suggests real control over tone.
The film's entire architecture hinges on the dad's face in those doorway moments—the micro-shifts from performance anxiety to actual vulnerability—and that sustained performance choice is what transforms what could've been a sitcom beat into something achingly human.