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The Plant

2012 · 8 min

A disorienting, dreamlike collage of fragmented viewpoints that keeps you unsettled and searching for a thread that never quite arrives.

Directed by: Mary Helena Clark

Overview: A spy film, built on the bad geometry of point-of-view shots.

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Directed by: Mary Helena Clark

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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
absurdstrength 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: obsession
deception
isolation
identity
Places: None
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	3
Humour	1
Realism	4
Romance	1
Tension	6
Darkness	5
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	3

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