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A Whistle

2002 · 6 min

A quiet, dreamlike six minutes that drifts between childlike imagery and adult melancholy, asking you to sit still and absorb rather than follow a story.

Overview
Based on a poem by Sakutaro Hagiwara. A child and an adult have different troubles.

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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • identity
    • memory
    • isolation
    Places
    None
    Era
    timeless
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • animated
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action0
    Horror1
    Humour1
    Realism3
    Romance0
    Tension2
    Darkness4
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Genres
    animation
    Directed by
    Atsushi Wada
    Runtime
    6 min
    Country
    Japan

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