Único sentido
2014 · 9m · España
Directed by Jorge Gonzalo
Who has not argued because the GPS is not following the path you would like? There are two types of people, those who follow indications without thinking and those who rebel against the rules: two humans against a small machine and the family waiting to eat.
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A GPS argument sounds like the most bloodless premise imaginable, but Gonzalo actually leans into the absurdist claustrophobia — the machine as unwitting antagonist, family dinner as ticking clock — and finds something genuinely perverse in how technology hollows out human authority.
The film's conceptual economy recalls a certain lineage of Spanish comic shorts that weaponize domestic mundanity; there's a precision in how Gonzalo sustains tension across nine minutes through the accumulation of small directorial choices rather than plot mechanics.
The whole thing turns on a single recurring cut—back to the GPS screen, its indifferent blue glow—and it's that rhythmic return, that one technical decision about where to land the camera in moments of conflict, that transforms what could've been a sketch into something genuinely discomfiting.