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Wise Blood
Comedy, Drama
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to grotesque literary comedy, eccentric outsiders, and spiritually charged stories that balance absurdity with bleak compassion.
- Tone
- darkly comic, satirical, surreal
- Payoff
- amusement, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- faith, alienation, spiritual hypocrisy, identity, redemption
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, small-town Southern America
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