La rabia
2021 · 9m · Argentina
Directed by Pablo Pol Rodríguez
In this fantastic-genre short, a contained and unresolved need finally finds its solution by forcing things to the least expected extreme.
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A short that solves its own problem by abandoning restraint entirely—the kind of escalation that shouldn't work but does, precisely because it refuses the safe third act. Subversive without announcing it, which is exactly when subversion lands hardest.
Rodríguez constructs a formal pressure cooker where genre conventions of containment meet their breaking point with deliberate precision; the surrealist tonal shift reads as both a rupture and an inevitable conclusion to the film's internal logic.
There's a single structural choice here—the refusal to resolve what the premise seems to demand—that reframes the entire 9 minutes into something stranger and more economical than the setup promises, and that decision is what makes it stick.