Behemoth

Behemoth

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Release Date

11/11/2015

Runtime

95 mins

Overview

Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining , the herdsmen have no choice but to leave as the meadow areas dwindle. In the moonlight, iron mines are brightly lit throughout the night. Workers who operate the drilling machines must stay awake. The fight is tortuous, against the machine and against themselves. Meanwhile, coal miners are busy filling trucks with coals. Wearing a coal-dust mask, they become ghostlike creatures. An endless line of trucks will transport all the coals and iron ores to the iron works. There traps another crowd of souls, being baked in hell. In the hospital, time hangs heavy on miners' hands. After decades of breathing coal dust, death is just around the corner. They are living the reality of purgatory, but there will be no paradise.

Status

Released

Original Language

Chinese

Budget

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Revenue

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A haunting visual descent into the human and environmental cost of industrial mining in China, where workers and landscape alike are consumed by relentless extraction. The film unfolds like a visual poem of slow-motion catastrophe, observing without narration or sentimentality.

Mood

Dread-soakedBleakMournfulClaustrophobic

Themes

SurvivalMortalityCorruptionNature

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Meditative

Look

Documentary-likeHigh-contrastDesaturated

Structure

Linear

Heads up

Graphic violence

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