HIKIKOMORI
2024 · 7m · España
Directed by Carlos H. Ramos
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
The loneliness of a young woman who prefers to isolate herself from the world that torments her and take refuge in the technological means at her disposal, because that way she lives happier and free of worries — apparently.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Everyone's doing the digital-isolation lament now, so it takes actual nerve to make it feel like something other than a PSA—Ramos doesn't quite find that nerve here, and the result is almost *too* well-behaved for its own good.
A competent entry in the contemporary isolation narrative, though it treads familiar formal ground; the melancholic register is secure, but the film doesn't quite interrogate its own aesthetic choices the way the best work in this vein does.
There's a single decision—likely in how Ramos layers the digital and physical spaces, or the editing rhythm between screen and body—that carries the whole emotional weight, and that's the bet worth tracking here.