Sorry, Not Sorry
2018 · 8m
Directed by Monique Sorgen
Genres: comedy, dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
A husband who eats the plums his wife was saving sparks an escalating domestic standoff neither will back down from.
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A domestic war over *plums* that neither combatant will surrender—this is the kind of stupidly brilliant premise that makes you realize how much energy we waste on things that don't matter, and Sorgen mines it for genuine absurdist dread without winking. Nobody else would've trusted the audience to stay invested in two people destroying their marriage over fruit, which is exactly why it works.
Sorgen situates this squarely in a lineage of minimalist domestic comedies—think Haneke's restraint meets the escalation logic of Beckett—and the formal discipline of the edit (letting silences do the heavy lifting) keeps the premise from collapsing into mere gimmick.
The film hinges entirely on the actors' refusal to break character or telegraph emotion; that commitment to playing the absurdity straight, without performance flourish, is what transforms eight minutes of pettiness into something genuinely unsettling and alive.