Intrusismo
2019 · 15m · España
Directed by Pablo Díaz
Tones: contemplative, dark, provocative
In today's society, where power and greed are the maxim, certain people benefit from the mentality of others. This is the story of Carlos Ramírez Zúñiga, a peculiar man who has benefited from the greed of others.
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The scouts
A film about parasitism that doesn't flinch from making its protagonist weirdly sympathetic—Díaz treats greed not as a moral failing to punish but as a structural inevitability, which is way more unsettling than the premise suggests it should be.
The satire operates in a register between Buñuel and contemporary European crime drama, though the tonal balance between provocation and contemplation occasionally risks undercutting its own formal stakes.
The key move is how Díaz frames Carlos: the camera's refusal to condemn him through conventional editing or score creates a complicity in the viewer that a more didactic film would've squandered immediately.