El perito del seguro (segunda parte)
2017 · 16m · España
Directed by DV Guerrero
Tones: darkly comic, humorous
A man is talked by his brother-in-law into taking part in a plan to defraud an insurance company. This second part follows the scheme they set in motion.
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A sequel to a scheme nobody asked for—which is exactly why it works; Guerrero leans into the absurdist momentum of fraud-as-sitcom, watching a plan metastasize in real time with the kind of deadpan certainty that makes you complicit in rooting for people you shouldn't.
The film's structural choice to begin *in medias fraudis* demonstrates a formal confidence in audience complicity, though the tonal register wavers between satire and farce without quite settling into either tradition with full commitment.
What elevates this beyond routine crime-comedy is the precise rhythm of the brothers-in-law dynamic—the micro-hesitations and over-explanations that signal panic masquerading as confidence—a single performance choice that transforms institutional humor into something genuinely uncomfortable.