Sociales
2019 · 11m · España
Directed by Eneko Botana
Genres: animation, comedy, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
Tinder is in love with Facebook and has decided to declare herself to him, but an unexpected attack of arrows will frustrate her plans. Social networks are in danger.
Picked by Felix
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Sociales does the thing nobody asked for but everyone secretly wanted: it makes social media platforms into lovestruck protagonists locked in absurdist melodrama while the internet burns. This is the kind of premise that sounds ridiculous until you realize it's the only honest way to talk about how we've warped our tools into gods.
Botana's anthropomorphic satire sits comfortably in a lineage of allegorical animation—the formal restraint of the execution, the controlled color palette, the measured pacing of the gag all suggest a filmmaker aware of how to build comedy through composition rather than noise.
The single stroke here is treating social networks as characters with genuine romantic stakes instead of punching bags; that choice reframes what could've been lazy satire into something that actually makes you *feel* the absurdity rather than just observe it.