Indiferencias urbanas
2025 · 3m · Argentina
Directed by Pablo Pol Rodríguez
Tones: contemplative, tense
A short about social indifference: the driver of a vehicle must collaborate immediately with an emergency occurring on the public road. Another person's life depends on his attitude.
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The premise reads like a morality play—stop-and-help-or-drive-on—but Rodríguez seems more interested in the psychological squirm of the moment than in preaching, which is almost enough to save it from its own earnestness.
A taut three-minute chamber piece that understands the grammar of suspense through stillness; the formal restraint recalls early Koreeda, though whether it has the depth to match that lineage remains the question.
What matters here is likely a single editing decision—the rhythm of cuts between the driver's interior and the emergency outside—that either builds genuine moral vertigo or just hits the expected beats; if Rodríguez nails that architecture, this becomes something.