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The Shadow of Utopia

2017 · 23 min

You sit in near-darkness while memory and fear flicker across your mind, more an inner landscape than a story.

Directed by
Antoinette Zwirchmayr
Overview
In my memory, Brazil is a film with few images and long stretches of darkness. While the screen remains black, my fears and longings are projected onto it, combining the images and attempting to give them meaning. Brazil has wormed its way into my imagination in a form the country has never assumed in real life.

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Directed by
Antoinette Zwirchmayr
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 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
  • memory
  • isolation
  • identity
  • fate
Places
None
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror3
Humour0
Realism4
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity8
Emotional weight6

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Directed by
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Runtime
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Languages
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