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A lockdown thriller that weaponizes bureaucratic collapse instead of melodrama—the doping control gap as a moral loophole is genuinely perverse, and most festivals would've softened it into an ethics debate. Pérez Sañudo leans into the sick logic of it and doesn't blink.

The film situates itself smartly within the tradition of sports noir, using the pandemic's formal constraints (isolation, stillness, absence) as its visual language, though the premise's specificity occasionally outpaces the measured restraint the form demands.

The choice to make the state of emergency itself the antagonist—not a villain, not moral conflict, but pure structural absence—transforms what could've been a conventional crime narrative into something genuinely unsettling with almost no resources.