It's Okay
2020 · 9m
Directed by Justin Giddings, Ryan Welsh
Genres: drama, sci-fi, thriller
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tense
Cam and Alex, an ordinary couple, begin experiencing strange disruptions as moments from their shared past resurface in altered form. As Cam pieces together what the technology around them has been doing, she uncovers a tragic truth about their life together.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
It's Okay plays it too safe—sci-fi domestic drama where the twist lands exactly where you expect it, and the 'altered memories' conceit has been done to death in prestige shorts. The melancholy is competent but consensus.
A formally controlled piece that inherits from Fincher-adjacent psychological thrillers; the editing rhythm and sound design show deliberate craft in service of revealed trauma, though it doesn't quite expand the lineage it inhabits.
The devastating move here is how they let the couple's mundane, tender gestures (a glance, a touch) become unreliable in retrospect—that single choice to make affection itself suspect turns a 9-minute budget constraint into the film's entire thesis about doubt and memory.
Reviews
The directors' control of a time-bending plot that stays comprehensible, Cam's tragic uncovering, and the film's unity of mood and resolution.