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Asphalt City

2024 · 120 min

A raw, unflinching plunge into the chaos and moral exhaustion of emergency medicine, leaving you shaken and sobered.

Tagline: Welcome to the frontlines.
Overview: A young paramedic is paired with a seasoned partner on the night shift in New York revealing a city in crisis. Discovering the chaos firsthand, he is tested with the ethical ambiguity that can be the difference between life and death.
How it feels: Dark, bleak, tense and earnest. Relentless and needs your attention.
About: Trauma, death, morality, guilt
Content: Strong violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: relentless, 4 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: trauma
death
morality
guilt
redemption
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex strong