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2014 · 9m · España
Directed by Miguel Muñoz
Genres: dark comedy, drama, fantasy
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, surreal
What would happen if all the desires you have asked for throughout your life come true in this very instant? Pablo from very small became an addict to desires but since they were never fulfilled he stopped asking for them… until now…
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A film that treats wish-fulfillment as a curse instead of fantasy porn—every desire materializing at once becomes psychological torture, which is exactly the kind of inversion that makes consensus taste uncomfortable. The dark comedy lands because it refuses to sentimentalize the premise; it just lets the absurdity collapse on itself.
Muñoz positions this neatly within the magical-realism lineage (echoes of Kaufman's sensibility), though the execution feels more sketch than fully realized—the surrealism wants more formal rigor to justify its tonal shifts between comedy and dread.
The single choice that works here is the decision to literalize every request at maximum intensity rather than filter or space them; that compressed cascade of simultaneous fulfillment is what makes the nine minutes feel claustrophobic instead of whimsical, and it's a restraint call that elevates a modest budget into genuine unease.