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Smilla's Sense of Snow
Drama, Thriller
Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy atmospheric investigations combining intellectual puzzles, wintry isolation, and moral tension around institutional power.
- Tone
- tense, eerie, cerebral
- Payoff
- revelation, unease
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- justice, grief, cultural displacement, corporate secrecy, colonial exploitation
- Setting
- contemporary, icy urban neighborhood and remote polar wilderness