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Akilla's Escape

2021 · 90 min

A slow, heavy crime-noir that wraps you in urban dread and generational sorrow, demanding patience for its quiet, brooding payoff.

Overview: In a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier, Akilla Brown captures a fifteen-year-old Jamaican boy in the aftermath of an armed robbery. Over one gruelling night, Akilla confronts a cycle of generational violence he thought he escaped.
How it feels: Dark, bleak, tense and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Violence, crime, trauma, isolation
Content: Strong violence and language. Mild gore and sexual content.
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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: violence
crime
trauma
isolation
redemption
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex mild