I'm SO Sorry
2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by Chester Vincent Toye
Tones: darkly comic, provocative
Two white roommates negotiate which Black Lives Matter sign to buy, parsing fonts and slogans like they're picking out throw pillows. Performative allyship gets dissected with surgical embarrassment.
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The scouts
Most films about 2020 reach for the grand gesture; this one stays in the Etsy cart and refuses to look away. The kind of small, mean satire that ages better than the prestige stuff.
Toye builds an entire short out of a single yard-sign shopping decision — Mike White cringe calibration applied to a Nextdoor thread. The compression is sharp; whether the satire lands more than once is the question.
Building an entire short out of two white roommates parsing fonts and slogans on BLM yard signs — that's the right scale of mortification, small and surgical. Nextdoor-thread-energy comedy lives or dies on the moment-by-moment cringe calibration.
Reviews
A brilliant conceit, both laughable and completely true to the moment, and gets dead-on performances from its two leads.