E-ALZ. Error de memoria
2017 · 4m · Perú
Directed by McCann Lima
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Matt, a mobile phone, leads a normal, routine life until sudden changes begin to affect how Matt functions. The story uses the failing phone as a tool for education about Alzheimer's disease.
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Cute metaphor, but the premise does exactly what it says on the tin — phone breaks down, Alzheimer's lesson delivered. Where's the subversion? Where's the thing that makes you *uncomfortable* about the comparison?
A formally disciplined piece that situates itself clearly within the tradition of disease-as-device cinema, though the execution doesn't quite transcend the pedagogical weight it carries — the metaphor remains illustration rather than achieving true formal resonance.
The choice to make the protagonist *literally a phone* — degrading in performance, losing function in real time — is the decision that makes this work; it's a single conceptual leap that does the educational labor without needing to explain it.