Based on the premise alone, "The Blue Light" could have been a really good short film that focused on the worlds between the fantasy and the reality, and while the award winning script does have creativity in its corner the movie doesn't completely deliver the impact it wants to mainly because the production is so weak. One of the key elements in a film is the editing and the editing here tends to keep the movie rather incoherent and reveals the inherent flaws behind the production. The biggest scene involving the protagonists mother experiencing a vicious car crash comes off rather shoddily because the scene is so heavily cut and squeezed together, it just yanks you out of the story. Beyond that the script written by Ramiro Hernandez leaves much to be desired mainly because most of the dialogue is painfully on the nose. The mother's final words before she suffers her tragic fate comes off rather hokey and the story is much too predictable to really involve yourself in.
 

We know the mother is going to experience a horrible death (that ultimately feels forced, manipulative, and far fetched), we know the father is eventually going to turn to alcohol, and we know the whole fantasy world this young girl experiences is a world between life and death that is all just a metaphor.  But then Hernandez seems to want to break the narrative he sets in the beginning by making the whole fantasy world ambiguous and never quite deciding whether or not this world is some sort of after life or just imagination as a means of coping with tragedy.

The story should have been incredibly gripping but sadly its fuzzy narrative and story structure weakens the overall attempts at bringing the audience close. Meanwhile the performances also leave much to be desired as the entire cast never quite come off as convincing in their parts. You can sense that Hernandez is working around their inability to deliver these complex emotions because sometimes he films their reactions to certain events without dialogue, and when they do have dialogue it's often stilted and very over the top. In the end there's not a lot explained so most of the actual intent is left in the backburner where there are still questions lingering ultimately bringing down the whole film. The final scenes involving the daughter now a college student also comes off as rather cheesy.