Sí, quiero
2017 · 9m · España
Directed by Rafa Puerto
Genres: dark comedy, satire, thriller
Tones: darkly comic, provocative, tense
A priest is kidnapped in a story that mixes black comedy, thriller elements, and social critique. The kidnapping drives the ensuing confrontation.
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The scouts
A priest kidnapped as the engine for black comedy AND social critique AND thriller—most directors would panic at that collision, but Puerto leans into the friction and makes the contradiction itself the point. The fact that this works at all is exactly why it shouldn't, which is precisely why it had to exist.
Puerto's tonal control here is disciplined without being showy; the film knows its lineage (Spanish satire, the kidnapping thriller) and respects the formal boundaries while still subverting them from within. There's a considered restraint in the editing that lets the provocation do its work.
The pivot from dark comedy to genuine threat—the moment the kidnapping becomes tactile rather than absurd—hinges on a single tonal shift in performance or cut that makes you suddenly believe the stakes. That's the seam where a premise becomes a film.