Krisis
2018 · 15m
Directed by Daniel F. Amselem
Genres: dark comedy, drama, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, melancholic
The Galactic Wanderer, a superhero who has accompanied humanity since its beginning, has lost his powers and enters therapy to decide whether to abandon Earth or keep protecting it from self-destruction.
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The scouts
A superhero film that uses the genre's grandiosity to ask whether protection itself becomes a kind of prison—that's the subversive move most people would bury under sentimentality, but Amselem lets it breathe as genuine philosophical crisis, which is exactly what makes it dangerous.
The film sits comfortably in a lineage of meta-superhero deconstruction (from Watchmen onward), and while that's familiar terrain, the therapeutic framing and tonal control—moving between absurdism and genuine melancholy without jarring—suggests a director aware of his formal inheritance and adding something measured to it.
The decision to shoot the therapy scenes with the same mundane gravity as the superhero mythology—no visual hierarchy, no winking—is what sells the entire conceit; that formal equality between the cosmic and the clinical transforms the premise from clever into something that actually lands.