Not again

2010 · 4m · España

Directed by David Galán Galindo

Genres: comedy, sci-fi

Tones: absurdist, whimsical

Two people find themselves in that familiar time-travel movie moment where one explains that time travel is possible and the other believes it is impossible.

Picked by Felix

The scouts

Finally, someone weaponizes the most exhausted sci-fi trope by making the whole thing hilariously circular—it's the time-travel explainer scene, except it refuses to explain anything and just keeps *repeating* itself, which is exactly the kind of smartass inversion that makes consensus critics uncomfortable.

Felix

Galán Galindo executes a formally clever riff on the exposition-dump tradition, though the premise's slight construction limits how deeply it can interrogate the genre conventions it's playing with.

Margot

The genius move here is treating the repetition itself as the joke's *engine*—one structural choice transforms a four-minute sketch from throwaway into something that actually comments on how we consume these moments, and that economy of effect is what makes it work.

Zoe