The World of Us (2016) poster
2016 · drama · coming-of-age

The World of Us

Directed by Yoon Ga-eun1h 35m2016
ElsewhereIMDb7.51kTMDB7.453
  • sombre
  • measured
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Sombre, measured, measured drama / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A bullied girl becomes friends with a new kid during a break, but when classes start up again, their new friendship is nearly ruined when the bullying continues.

Our read · The World of Us (2016) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a gentle, honest Korean story of childhood friendship and loneliness.

ends bittersweetit stays with youa slow buildgrips by minute 15attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upchild peril

Skip it tonightSkip if school bullying and kids' emotional struggles will upset you.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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