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Staircase

2018 · 20 min

A quietly suffocating, uncomfortable watch that lingers on a mother's quiet cruelty and the slow poison of dependency.

Overview
A mother puts opium in her son's milk to make him dependent to her.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 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
  • addiction
  • parenthood
  • isolation
  • betrayal
  • family
Places
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror4
Humour0
Realism8
Romance0
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Mohsen Banihashemi
Starring
Sara Bahrami, Toomaj Danesh Behzadi, Faezeh Yousefi, Gholam Niazi
Cinematography
Soroush Alizadeh
Runtime
20 min
Country
Iran
Languages
Persian

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