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The Sea

2000 · 108 min

A haunting, slow-burn descent into repressed desire and violence, suffused with religious guilt and the lingering scars of war.

Overview: Childhood friends reunite later in life in Spanish tuberculosis sanitorium. Pressures of death all around combine with dark secrets of their past.
How it feels: Dark, bleak, tense and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Trauma, guilt, obsession, faith
Content: Strong violence and sexual content. Mild gore and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 3 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: trauma
guilt
obsession
faith
death
Places: hospital
countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex strong