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Mysterious Circumstance: The Death of Meriwether Lewis

2022 · 115 min

A somber, talk-heavy historical puzzle that keeps you leaning in, sifting competing accounts of one fateful night in the wild.

Tagline: Suicide? Accident? Murder? Conspiracy?
Overview: Versions of Meriwether Lewis's 1809 death at a remote wilderness inn are imagined by his friend Alexander Wilson during a tense encounter with the only witness to the famed explorer's final night alive.
How it feels: Tense, dark, melancholic and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Mystery, death, memory, guilt
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: mystery
death
memory
guilt
conspiracy
Places: wilderness
single country house
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild