Toca2
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by MARIAN RIDOIN
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, tense
During a couples therapy session, a game of Battleship becomes an emotional battlefield where María and Víctor unearth buried truths while the psychologist watches helplessly.
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The therapy-session-as-game-board premise is clever enough, but it lands exactly where you'd expect it to—relationship dysfunction revealed through symbolic play. Would've been genuinely unsettling if Ridoin had let the Battleship conceit get weirder, darker, or actually broken the fourth wall with the psychologist.
Ridoin harnesses a formally disciplined space—the therapist's office, the grid of Battleship—to contain emotional chaos, and the editing rhythm between game moves and confession feels precisely calibrated against the tradition of chamber dramas that weaponize intimacy.
The decision to hold the camera on the psychologist's face during the couple's revelations—watching helplessness register in real time rather than cutting to the emotional beat—is what makes this three-minute film breathe; it's the constraint that unlocks everything.