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Five Limbs

5 min

A brief, unsettling glimpse of a deformed future that lingers like a warning, more mood and message than story.

Directed by
Li Yifan
Overview
We’ve imagined a future world where due to serious environmental pollution, all the human beings have mutated. Because of the COVID-19, the nuclear radiation, or the haze, human beings begin to deform. However, in order to avoid humans extinction, we start to accept the existence of deformity. Since then, in this seemingly peaceful world, we’ve never seen ordinary people. Through this short film, I hope to arouse all the people’s awareness to protect the world.

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Directed by
Li Yifan
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How it feels

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Tone
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • environment
  • identity
  • survival
  • isolation
Places
None
Era
near-future
Audience
adult
Form
  • animated
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror4
Humour2
Realism3
Romance0
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight5

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Directed by
Li Yifan
Runtime
5 min
Languages
Mandarin

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