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Dummy

2006 · 10 min

A claustrophobic, uneasy chamber piece that slowly tightens around guilt and grief until the air feels heavy.

Directed by
Diederik Van Rooijen
Genres
Thriller
Starring
Gijs Scholten van Aschat, Fedja van Huêt, Priscilla Knetemann
Overview
A dark evening. A father drives home with his daughter on the back seat. A head-on collision. A man awakes in a large empty room, where the father appears to want something from him. That night, victim and inflictor reconstruct the biggest mistake of their lives.

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Directed by
Diederik Van Rooijen
Genres
Thriller
Starring
Gijs Scholten van Aschat, Fedja van Huêt, Priscilla Knetemann
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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 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
  • guilt
  • grief
  • death
  • morality
  • memory
Places
  • single country house
  • road trip
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror4
Humour1
Realism6
Romance0
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
thriller
Directed by
Diederik Van Rooijen
Starring
Gijs Scholten van Aschat, Fedja van Huêt, Priscilla Knetemann
Runtime
10 min
Country
Netherlands
Languages
Dutch

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