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Eating Children

2016 · 63 min

A queasy, deadpan provocation that feels like a clinical nightmare dressed as a comedy, testing your patience and stomach.

Directed by
Wu Haohao
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Wu Haohao, Ge Ningning
Overview
Adapted from Zhu Yu's work "I Discuss the Matter of Eating Children with Women." Zang Qing wants to try something: to have his own child eaten by himself or a dog. The child needs to be aborted and removed from its mother's belly after three months of pregnancy. To this end, Zang Qing seeks a woman to bear the child. This film is a concrete process.

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Directed by
Wu Haohao
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Wu Haohao, Ge Ningning
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 3 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 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
  • morality
  • madness
  • death
  • gender
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror4
Humour6
Realism6
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness9
Complexity8
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Wu Haohao
Written by
Wu Haohao
Starring
Wu Haohao, Ge Ningning
Cinematography
Wu Haohao
Runtime
63 min
Country
China
Languages
Mandarin

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