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Heart of Darkness

1994 · 100 min

A slow, oppressive drift upriver into moral fog, beautiful and suffocating, leaving you uneasy long after.

Tagline: The jungle offers incredible riches, but its price can be deadly.
Overview: A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
How it feels: Dark, bleak, eerie and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Colonialism, greed, madness, power
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 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: colonialism
greed
madness
power
morality
Places: wilderness
sea
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild