Movie

The Broken

2008 · 93 min

A slow, disorienting plunge into paranoia where familiar faces turn against you and reality keeps slipping.

Tagline: Face your fear.
Overview: The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting to uncover who the imposter could be, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that her family and closest friends are somehow involved in, leaving her with no one to trust.
How it feels: Eerie, tense, dark and bleak. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Identity, isolation, fate, freedom
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 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: identity
isolation
fate
freedom
obsession
Places: big city
home
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild