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Drowsy City

2019 · 73 min

A quiet, grim slow descent into cruelty and loneliness that leaves you uneasy and unsettled long after.

Overview
Slaughtering chickens for a living, Tao spends most of his time in close proximity with the birds which seem to be the only companions to his solitude. Until one day three strange gangsters come to hide in the abandoned building where he is living in, bringing violence, noisy drunkenness, bullying and a young prostitute. Turning for the worst, the situation will precipitate into a spiral of muted love and cruel torture to an utterly unpredictable outcome.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • violence
  • loneliness
  • crime
  • power
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror5
Humour1
Realism7
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
crime, drama
Directed by
Lương Đình Dũng
Written by
Lương Đình Dũng
Starring
Nguyễn Văn Toàn, Nguyên Quôc Thành, Lê Thúy Hiền, Vũ Minh Trí, Tạ Xuân Tuế, Trần Văn Bá
Runtime
73 min
Country
Vietnam
Languages
Vietnamese

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