Red Eye
2021 · 21m · España
Directed by Mario Herbón
Genres: drama, sci-fi, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
On one of their trips to find medicine for little Natalia, Irene and Jorge encounter something that will change the course of events in a dystopian world.
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A dystopian medicine-run that promises subversion but lands squarely in expected sci-fi territory—competent, sure, but it doesn't have the nerve to actually upset the applecart or make me question why this story needed telling in the first place.
Herbón situates this within a lineage of lean, purposeful sci-fi cinema—the restrained palette and tonal control read as deliberate, even if the premise itself hasn't earned its formal rigor through structural innovation.
The choice to anchor emotional stakes entirely on Natalia's absence—never showing her, just the hunt for her medicine—transforms what could've been sentimental into something genuinely unsettling; that structural decision does more work than the dystopia itself.