Madrid 2120
2019 · 8m · España
Directed by José Luis Quirós, Paco Sáez
Genres: crime, sci-fi, thriller
Madrid, 2120: life in the big city has become a class struggle between those above and those below, and Nitrogreen, an unstable liquid capable of generating instant vegetation, is the most valuable contraband — until a failed delivery and a shootout force an anonymous taxi driver into the most important decision of his life.
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Nitrogreen as contraband is a fun inversion—capitalism's obsession with scarcity flipped so that *life itself* becomes the black market commodity—but the taxi driver's moral crossroads feels a touch familiar for a subversive premise to really sing.
Quirós and Sáez work within the lineage of cyberpunk urban allegory with formal discipline: the vertical class geography is visually legible, the crime-thriller mechanics are clean, though it's competent rather than revelatory in how it situates itself against its predecessors.
The decision to keep the taxi driver anonymous and let the audience carry his paralysis—that one choice transforms what could be a standard heist-gone-wrong into something that stays with you, forcing viewers to decide for him rather than judge him.