Y todo va bien
2008 · 16m · España
Directed by Guillermo Zapata
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Two strangers with their problems, motivated by their boring lives, relate through chat, virtual sex included, deceiving themselves that everything is going well — until they arrange to meet.
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Everyone's doing the internet-alienation thing now, but Zapata actually commits to the bit—the virtual intimacy is *more* real than the crushing letdown of physical presence, which most filmmakers are too cowardly to sustain without irony.
A precise formal descendent of late-period Haneke and the European digital-realist tradition, where the film's refusal to sentimentalize the chat sequences or their meeting becomes its own kind of moral clarity.
The decision to play the online scenes with genuine tenderness and the in-person meeting with absolute flatness—never cutting away, never letting us off the hook—is what makes the deception feel inevitable rather than tragic.