Movie

Missing

2008 · 118 min

A soggy, dreamlike plunge into grief and murky memory, where underwater ghosts and unreliable recollections blur into one haunting, sorrowful haze.

Overview: In Hong Kong, Dr. Gao Jing is introduced to photographer and diver Dave Chen Guo Dong. They fall in love and Guo Dong invites Gao Jing to travel to Taiwan to visit an ancient submarine city, where he intends to propose. During the dive, Guo Dong vanishes, and Gao Jing is unable to recall what happened underwater. Her investigations open her eyes to something far more than she ever expected.
How it feels: Eerie, melancholic, tense and romantic. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Grief, memory, love, death
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
memory
love
death
obsession
Places: sea
big city
hospital
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild