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The Ghost and the Whale

2014 · 105 min

A disorienting plunge into a grieving mind, blurring memory and hallucination until the truth feels unreachable.

Tagline: When the sea took her, he lost himself.
Overview: A man, Joseph, loses his wife at sea, then spirals deep into a world of confusion. The wife's brothers' need revenge! Joseph tries to tell anyone who will listen that a whale killed his beautiful Annabel Lee, but even he doesn't quite remember the truth. A journey into the depths of his mind, a conversation with a whale and blood thirsty brothers.
How it feels: Dark, eerie, melancholic and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Grief, madness, revenge, memory
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 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: grief
madness
revenge
memory
isolation
Places: sea
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild