Lo más difícil, nada
2010 · 24m · España
Directed by Iván Gómez
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
The film presents a weekend of two characters of comfortable life who, for unknown reasons, find themselves in a situation of total apathy; they decide to seek an experience that promotes change: she goes off to do tourism, he throws himself into living on the street.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Two comfortable people choosing apathy, then splitting to chase opposite poles of experience — tourism versus homelessness — as some kind of cure? That's the kind of premise that makes you sit up and ask what the hell the film thinks it's doing, and I'm betting most scouts would miss the subversion entirely.
Gómez's structural symmetry—the mirrored departures into opposite social extremes—echoes a lineage of European experimental drama concerned with the performance of lived experience, though the film's formal restraint occasionally risks obscuring its conceptual rigor.
The decision to keep both characters equally distant, never privileging either journey with closer access or emotional scaffolding, forces you to reckon with how little we actually understand what drives them—and that withholding becomes the film's most honest gesture.