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Apocalypse. Two starving kids find a dead body in the ruins. (Source: IMDb) Edit Translation

  • English
  • Español
  • Português (Brasil)
  • 한국어
  • Country: China
  • Type: Movie
  • Release Date: Jul 26, 2016
  • Duration: 16 min.
  • Score: 6.6 (scored by 12 users)
  • Ranked: #70822
  • Popularity: #99999
  • Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Cast & Credits

  • Hu Bo in Man in the Well Chinese Movie (2016)
    Hu Bo Screenwriter & Director

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The Butterfly
3 people found this review helpful
Oct 10, 2024
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Overall 7.5
Story 7.5
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 1.0
Rewatch Value 6.0
Before Hu Bo created his only full-length film, An Elephant Sitting Still, he made this short film about two children attempting to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Filmed in black and white without music, the film comes across as bleak and desolate---a warning of man’s destructive nature.

Two children are seen searching for anything to eat, knowing they are starving and could die. Their world is decaying and crumbling apart. Every step crunching on the ruins of civilization emphasizes how they live in a godforsaken land. They search a blown-out building and find a man tied and chained to a wall. Realizing he might be someone else’s food cache; they work quickly to secure him for themselves. Is he dead or still alive? And does that even matter anymore?

This is not a great film, but one that people who want to annihilate others should see. Governments who believe there is such a thing as “limited” nuclear war should see. Our mutually assured destruction can put us in a position where those who survive have only the bodies of other unfortunate souls to feed upon. Hu Bo’s pessimistic vision of the future is a dark place of utter misery. Children who should be giggling, playing, and well-fed have become scavengers in a wasteland spiraling down a hole deeper than any well.

10 October 2024

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  • Movie: Man in the Well
  • Country: China
  • Release Date: Jul 26, 2016
  • Duration: 16 min.
  • Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

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  • Score: 6.6 (scored by 12 users)
  • Ranked: #70822
  • Popularity: #99999
  • Watchers: 17

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