Si las mujeres gobernaran el mundo
2016 · 4m · Estados Unidos
Directed by Yulin Kuang
Genres: comedy, fantasy, satire
Tones: absurdist, provocative, whimsical
A woman struck by lightning wakes in a world where women dominate the world of work. The transport opens a flipped order of power.
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The lightning-strike reset is a cheap premise wrapper, but Kuang actually uses it—the film doesn't lecture, it *shows* the absurd micro-inequities flipped and suddenly visible, which is the opposite of what most gender-swap comedies do. It's subversive because it trusts you to see the joke without the film pointing at it.
A formally economical satire that situates itself in a lineage of speculative short cinema—the constraint of four minutes forces a precision in editing and visual metaphor that feels deliberate rather than rushed, though the conceptual weight sometimes strains against the whimsy.
The choice to make the lightning strike itself almost incidental—not the climax, just the mechanism—and then linger on small, concrete details of reversed workplace behavior is what makes this work; it's that shift in focus, away from spectacle toward observation, that gives the absurdism teeth.