Robando tiempo
2011 · 17m · Estados Unidos
Directed by Alex Calleros
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
A discouraged inventor builds a time machine to change the past and unwittingly unleashes a disastrous chain of events.
Picked by Felix
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A time-travel film that actually *gets* the philosophical trap—the inventor doesn't save anything, he just keeps breaking it worse—and plays it for dark laughs instead of Hollywood sentiment. This is the kind of sci-fi premise that should be obvious but almost nobody has the nerve to execute with this much absurdist bite.
Calleros works within genre lineage (the inadvertent catastrophe riff, the tinkerer-as-Faustian figure) but the whimsical tone keeps it from settling into predictable tragedy; the editing rhythm between invention sequences and cascading consequences shows formal control.
The decision to keep the inventor *well-intentioned but myopic*—never letting him see the full scope of the chaos he's creating until it's too late—transforms what could be a cute premise into something genuinely melancholic, and that emotional specificity is what makes the budget stretch.