Por tu propio bien ¡Hay motivo!
2004 · 3m · España
Directed by Icíar Bollaín
Tones: dark, provocative
There is no childbirth without pain — ask Luis Tosar: a short from the '¡Hay motivo!' anthology of films criticising the Partido Popular government.
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Bollaín hijacks a biological metaphor to eviscerate political pain—it's blunt, it's angry, and it refuses the polite distance most political cinema hides behind, which means most people will hate it, which means it's probably worth seeing.
A 3-minute agitprop film that knows exactly what it is: formally economical, temporally precise, and situated squarely in the ¡Hay motivo! anthology's tradition of cinematic resistance—the kind of short that stakes its claim through formal discipline, not just message.
Bollaín's choice to literalize the political through the biological body—using Tosar's performance to collapse metaphor into flesh—is the single idea that makes this work, transforming a protest film into something anatomical and unavoidable.