Un viaje a tomar por culo
2017 · 9m · España
Directed by Chesco Murillo
Genres: comedy, fantasy, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
Marc, a time-travel obsessive willing to do anything to get to the future, learns that the journey demands an unexpected and humiliating toll before he faces whatever awaits him in 2022.
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A time-travel premise that pivots on literal humiliation as the cost of futurity—it's the kind of stupid-smart inversion that makes you groan and then immediately want to rewatch it. Murillo treats the absurd toll with the same deadpan commitment others reserve for saving the world, which is exactly why it works.
The film's structural economy is admirable, compressing a paradox-laden premise into nine minutes without sacrificing the formal clarity of its escalation, though the tonal commitment to absurdism places it slightly outside the lineage of sci-fi comedy that demands intellectual architecture.
The decision to make the future's price something corporeally undignified rather than metaphysically cosmic—and then to hold the camera steady on Marc's face as he processes it—transforms what could've been a one-note gag into something genuinely affecting about desire and compromise.