Movie

The World

2004 · 140 min

A slow, quietly devastating drift through a glittering fake world, where lonely people reach for each other and mostly miss.

Overview: At Beijing World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the city’s suburbs, a security guard betrays his dancer girlfriend by pursuing another woman.
How it feels: Melancholic, bleak, earnest and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Isolation, class, identity, love
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 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: isolation
class
identity
love
betrayal
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild