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2005 · drama · crime

Little Fish

Directed by Rowan Woods1h 54m2005
ElsewhereIMDb6.19kRT89%Metacritic77
  • sombre
  • measured
Movie DNA

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

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Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.

Our read · Little Fish (2005) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · crime 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 raw Sydney crime drama with addiction, love, and impossible choices.

ends devastatingit will wreck youa slow buildgrips by minute 24attention 4/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-updrug usegraphic violence

Skip it tonightSkip if heroin relapse stakes and bleak Australian grit will crush your mood.

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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