Movie

Take Out

2008 · 88 min

A grinding, real-time day of bicycle deliveries and mounting dread, quietly immersive and quietly devastating in its everyday desperation.

Tagline: One illegal immigrant, one smuggling debt, one day to pay up.
Overview: An illegal Chinese immigrant falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt. Ming Ding has only until the end of the day to come up with the money.
How it feels: Tense, melancholic, earnest and bleak. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Survival, isolation, class, immigration
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Full breakdown

Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
isolation
class
immigration
work
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild