Correr es de valientes
2019 · 3m · España
Directed by Miguel Romero
Tones: darkly comic, provocative
A young man jogging in a public park is sexually harassed by a woman using the same techniques men use on women — an exceptional situation for men and an everyday one for women.
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The gender-reversal gimmick could've been a PSA, but Romero actually commits to the discomfort—letting the absurdity breathe without winking at the audience. Three minutes of something that should piss people off for exactly the right reasons.
A cleanly executed inversion of a familiar social critique, positioning itself squarely in the lineage of satire-as-mirror; the restraint in the formal approach—letting the premise speak rather than hammer—elevates it beyond polemic.
The genius move is the jogging itself—that sustained, repetitive physicality becomes the film's argument, and Romero's choice to hold on the runner's face through each microaggression, without cutting away, does more work than any montage ever could.