This is a darkly funny film about when relationships reach a point where they might not survive due to a revelation one partner shares with the other. In this age of social media where it seems a large number of people feel compelled to show and tell more than others might want to know, director Erin Murray cleverly captures the fallout of this mentality.
A couple are seen carrying many potted plants to be loaded in their tiny car for the ride home, but before they head out, they sit together and have a takeaway lunch. A casual conversation turns highly uncomfortable as one pushes the other to confess to activities he feels are private. Of course, a healthy relationship encourages intimacy and trust, but it also should allow both partners to set boundaries when they need to. I Don’t Need to Know raises questions about how human interactions have eroded due to social expectations. There is even a commonly used abbreviation on social media known as “TMI”-too much information.
Actors Erin Murray and Al Warren do a very good job of playing a couple who are perhaps early into their relationship, still flirty but also a little edgy. She gets increasingly more pushy and he becomes gradually more uneasy. All the while, she justifies her line of reasoning as just becoming more intimate with him but there is an underlying viciousness that Murray subtly conveys. Like the pitcher plant she is holding, she seems to be trying to ensnare her partner as prey. Their interaction as the film leaves us with a last zinger is a worthy payoff to the film.
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