He caught his wife cheating and did... absolutely nothing. Five minutes of excruciating cowardice.
Cristian comes back to his house because he forgot his work badge. At home, he finds Fernanda, his wife, having sex with somebody else. Cristian does not dare to deal with the situation, so he wanders around the city to avoid the event and decide what to do about it.
Direction
Sánchez stretches five minutes into an eternity of decision paralysis.
Acting
Saldaña's face does what words cannot: nothing, then nothing, then more nothing.
Director
Luis Sánchez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
ENAC-UNAM films often use the short format to trap characters in bureaucratic or emotional loops — this one literalizes the 'run away' impulse.
The title's Spanish original, 'Autocomplacencia,' was reportedly almost changed because test audiences found it 'too mean to men.'
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