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The Man Who Stole the Sun

1979 · 147 min

A strange, deadpan slow ride that mixes bureaucratic absurdity with genuine dread, drifting between comedy and quiet menace without warning.

Genres
Crime, Thriller, Drama
Overview
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.

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Tone
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • obsession
  • madness
  • media
  • power
  • identity
Places
  • big city
  • school
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror2
Humour5
Realism6
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight5

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