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Demolition 如常

2024 · 22 min

A quiet, heavy short that sits with a couple's unraveling, pressing you into their helplessness and slow erosion of ordinary life.

Overview
When an earnest couple was forced to leave their only home for an unspecified reason, their lives begin to shatter in pieces.
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • family
  • grief
  • class
  • survival
Places
  • home
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Directed by
Zey Li
Written by
Zey Li
Starring
Xiaobai Han, YenWen Chen, Chang Liu
Cinematography
Brandon Paradise
Runtime
22 min

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