Movie

Child of God

2014 · 104 min

A grim, grimy trudge into a man's unraveling, more endurance test than entertainment, with a cold, unblinking stare.

Tagline: Murder is his salvation
Overview: A dispossessed, violent man's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, he descends to the level of a cave dweller and falls deeper into crime and degradation.
How it feels: Bleak, dark, eerie and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Isolation, madness, violence, politics
Content: Strong violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
madness
violence
politics
death
Places: countryside
small town
wilderness
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex strong