Crítica de Peones

Cuando un festival no selecciona tu corto, suele enviar un correo electrónico explicando que les ha gustado tu trabajo pero que debido a la gran cantidad de cortos recibidos, no pueden incluirlo en la presente edición, y te invitan a que lo intentes al año siguiente. Pero también hay algunos que te lo justifican con más detalle, y, en este caso, con una crítica en toda regla.

Peones no fue seleccionado en un certamen de cortometrajes norteamericano y esta es la razón que me dan. No he cortado nada y he decidido no traducirlo para no tergiversar sus palabras. Aquí está, tal cual:

"A game of chess that turns into an allegory for war (using more than just chess pieces). It's not a particularly interesting allegory of war as a game between two leaders. With an audience as sophisticated as DC's, it'll fall flat and people will be bored throughout. It's an interesting thought experiment of war as a chess game that changes and whose rules become fungible. It starts off very slow, with the two men not saying anything and merely looking at each other across the table. One of the players moves his pawns backward, which isn't allowed in chess, and will bother anyone whose played it before. The score is slow and assonant. Audiences lose interest quickly as there is no real plot, simply an elongated allegory. We are too sophisticated for such a simple, and overly long, allegory. 

The battle of chess mirrors real life battles. Too heavy handed, rather boring, and a message that we've all heard before. The sound was good and the visuals sharp. The twist end of the clean chessboard/battlefield, though not surprising, was enjoyable. It dragged on far too long, particularly in the opening match scene before the pawn goes down. And the war allegory is far too heavy handed; viewer felt like she was being pounded over the head with "war is bad". Filmgoers should be treated more intellegently. It was too boring a film for a too slight story and an overly used message."

Hay que estar a las duras y a las maduras. No todo tienen que ser buenas noticias.