Señales de indiferencia
2007 · 15m · España
Directed by Javier Fernández Vázquez
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: absurdist, melancholic
Around four in the morning, an SMS, a bus ride, a drunken Alexia and an insult from Susana answered by throwing a glass lead to another bus ride to the centre.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A 4am SMS spiraling into glass-throwing and circular bus rides—this is what happens when you let absurdism run the show instead of plot, and it's exactly the kind of escalating nonsense that makes sense only in its own fever dream logic. Everyone else sees a dark comedy about drunk messiness; Felix sees a structural middle finger to the idea that conflict needs resolution.
Fernández Vázquez positions this squarely in the lineage of European absurdist comedy—the formal repetition of the bus ride as both structure and metaphor speaks to a deliberate, considered approach to form that distinguishes it from mere chaos.
The decision to return to the bus ride, to let the same setting repeat with escalating emotional weight rather than cut to new locations, is what transforms a premise about drunk texting into something genuinely unsettling—economy of location as emotional architecture.