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Embrace of the Serpent

2015 · 125 min

A slow, hypnotic journey through a black-and-white jungle that feels dreamlike, mournful and quietly devastating.

Tagline: A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.
Overview: The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.
How it feels: Melancholic, eerie, dark and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Colonialism, nature, memory, madness
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 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: colonialism
nature
memory
madness
identity
Places: wilderness
countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild