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Heaven's Story

2010 · 278 min

A long, somber meditation on grief and vengeance that asks for patience and rewards it with emotional depth.

Tagline: Can everything be polarized into good or evil?
Overview: A young girl named Sato watches on television as a man named Tomoki states brazenly at a press conference that he hopes convicted murderer Mitsuo is eventually placed back into society so that he can kill him with his bare hands.
How it feels: Dark, bleak, melancholic and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Grief, revenge, justice, morality
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 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: grief
revenge
justice
morality
trauma
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild