#MensajeDeVoz
2019 · 6m · España
Directed by Miquel García Borda
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
Quique meets Carlos to tell him something very important, but just as he begins to speak, Carlos receives a WhatsApp voice message.
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Six minutes of setup for a gag that never lands—except it does, because the *interruption itself* is the point, and García Borda has the gall to make you sit through the awkward silence of a moment that was supposed to matter. It's a premise so deceptively simple it loops back to genius.
The film understands its debt to the tradition of comedic timing and frustrated dramatic irony, executing a clean formal joke about how technology colonizes intimacy—but the execution feels slight against the craft weight it's reaching for.
The entire film hinges on the *sound design of that WhatsApp notification*—how it doesn't cut the scene, it *replaces* it—and that single choice transforms what could be a throwaway premise into something that actually says something about presence and attention.