Do I Have to Take Care of Everything? (Pitääkö mun kaikki hoitaa?) is a 2012 short film (only 7 minutes) from Finland, directed by Selma Vilhunen.
It is a short comic piece about a family of four rushing to make a wedding. Sini has set the alarm for 7 am, but she sleeps through it. Instead she wakes up at nine. Horrified, she shakes her husband Jokke awake and tells him that they are late. Comic hijinks ensue as the family—Sini, Jokke, and their little daughters Ella and Kertu—scrambles to dress, get the present and the card, and make it to the church on time.
Tropes:
- Exact Words: Ella and Kertu's dresses are still in the wash, not dry, so Sini tells them to get something they'd wear at a party. The girls come back with the costumes they wore to the last Halloween.
- Extremely Short Timespan: A couple of hours as a family rushes to make a wedding.
- For Doom the Bell Tolls: A gag. As the family frantically dresses, a tolling church bell reminds them that they are late.
- Hypocritical Humor: Sini yells at the family for being late, but most of what goes wrong is her fault. She was the one who didn't answer the alarm, she was the one who didn't put the girls' dresses in the dryer, she's the one who knocks the coffee cup in her husband's hand and stains his shirt, and she's the one who trips in high heels outside and shatters the plant. And as the ending reveals, she's the one who got the date wrong.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: Sini is attempting to run down a sidewalk in high heels and while carrying a potted plant. When Jokke asks if she needs help she says "I can do this!" Immediately after the heel of the shoe breaks, she trips and falls, and the plant pot shatters.
- Men Can't Keep House: And they can't get kids dressed. Jokke, tasked with getting the girls ready, goes into their clothes drawer and pulls out what looks like a dress. One of the girls says "Dad, that's a nightie."
- Minimalist Cast: Only five speaking parts, namely the four members of the family and the priest at the church.
- Questioning Title?: An irritated Sini's question "Do I have to take care of everything here?"
- Stocking Filler: Played for a gag. Sini, rushing to get ready for the wedding, pulls up a stocking—and rips it.
- Title Drop: Sini, upset with the rest of the family being slow, says "Do I have to take care of everything here?"
- Twist Ending: The family bursts in to the church, disheveled and out of breath, and discovers that they have interrupted a funeral. The wedding is next week.
