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Excavator

2017 · 92 min

A somber, slow-burning reckoning with buried history, heavy with guilt and quiet tension.

Overview: 20 years after discharge from the army and now an excavator driver, a former paratrooper who had been mobilized to suppress the May 18th Democratic Uprising in Korea in 1980, happens to find a skull in the ground one day. Driving his excavator, he pays visits to his former superiors one by one and realizes they were all both assailants and victims of the times.

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 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
memory
justice
trauma
politics
Places: small town
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

All scales, 0 to 10

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

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Lee Ju-hyoung
Written by: Kim Ki-duk
Starring: Uhm Tae-woong, Kim Kyung-ik, Jeong Se-hyeong, Jo Deok-jae, Jo Young-jin, Kim Jung-pal, Cho Won-hee, Shin Yoo-ram
Runtime: 92 min
Country: South Korea
Languages: Korean

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