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2011 · 12m · España
Directed by Raúl Fernández Rincón
Genres: drama, sci-fi, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
In Madrid in 2057, ordinary Jorge Arellano becomes cornered in his own home by the very devices that guarantee his safety, forcing a man used to machines solving every problem to react for himself.
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Smart enough to ask 'what if your smart home becomes your prison?' but plays it mostly straight—it's the kind of high-concept thriller that gets programmed everywhere, which means it's probably not doing anything truly weird enough to surprise me.
A cleanly executed inversion of the smart-home thriller that understands its debt to both Kubrick's sterile futures and the paranoia traditions of 70s sci-fi; the formal restraint in how it frames Jorge against his own environment shows real compositional awareness.
The masterstroke here is the sound design—the way Rincón lets the ambient hum of ambient systems become genuinely menacing without ever cutting to the devices themselves, turning Jorge's isolation into pure acoustic dread with minimal budget.