Movie

The Letter

2012 · 92 min

A slow, unsettling plunge into a creative mind's unraveling, where reality and delusion blur and certainty never arrives.

Tagline: Obsession can blur the lines of reality.
Overview: A playwright begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is at the center of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality.
How it feels: Tense, eerie, dark and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Obsession, identity, madness, isolation
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
identity
madness
isolation
art
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild