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LA CAJA DE PANDORA (2016) Short Film: Humanity Exists in V.R. World During War

Laserball La Caja de Pandora

La Caja de Pandora Short Film

Daniel Hernández Torrado‘s La Caja de Pandora / Virtual (2016) short film stars Ismael Fritschi, Javier Páez, Mike Galeck, Nacho Serapio, and María Reyes. La Caja de Pandora‘s “In a future decadent world where the humankind has taken refuge in virtual reality to live their dreams and adventures as the real world falls apart. A professional player of the Laserball league is disqualified during the game and forced to be disconnected for a few hours. Returning to the real world, he is reunited with his father. The clash between their realities reopens old wounds.”

La Caja de Pandora which translates into Pandora’s Box is a fascinating short film about the fantasy of a digital world and the reality of the real world. In La Caja de Pandora, humanity has completely adapted to being born in the real world but turning in that life to live in a virtual world.  This short film is very much like the Bruce Willis action film Surrogates, except instead of robotic avatars in the real world, the people’s avatars in La Caja de Pandora exist in a virtual world.

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The strength of this film is not the Laserball segments. Its strength comes from the extended real world segments and there implications for the virtual world (the family drama, feeding tubes, tubes in the rectum, breathing machines, etc.).

La Caja de Pandora also stars David Galán, David Amón, Joaquín Molina, Javier Díaz Sánchez, José Antonio Marín, Ramón Álvarez Marcos, Guillermo López, and Ángel Luis Pereira.

Watch the La Caja de Pandora short film and leave your thoughts on it below in the comments section. Readers seeking more short films can visit our Short Film Page, our Short Film Twitter Page, our Short Film Facebook Page, our Short Film Google+ Page, and our Short Film Pinterest Board. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, and Facebook. The Kickstarter page for a potential full length version of this short film can be found here. We learned of this short via Firstshowing.

La Caja de Pandora Short Film

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Rollo Tomasi

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, TV show, short film, Blu-ray, and 4K-Ultra reviews. His reviews are published in IMDb's External Reviews and in Google News. Previously you could find his work at Empire Movies, Blogcritics, and AltFilmGuide. Now you can find his work at FilmBook.
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