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Shell (2012)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Abandoned by her mother when she was a child, Shell has stayed to take care of her dying father but now feels trapped within the beautiful but desolate landscape that surrounds her. With only her routine of running the decaying petrol station, taking care of her father, and spending afternoons in her bedroom with a local mechanic, life is passing Shell by with every passing truck that rattles her walls. One day a salesman stops to re-fuel and offers Shell a taste of the outside world that takes her closer than ever to the edge of the road and her desire to escape.
Style:
touching, psychological, atmospheric, serious, stylized, uplifting, realistic
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
incest, father daughter incest, solitude, loneliness, family relations, parents and children, under the surface, youth, teenage life, single parent, estrangement, doomed love, girl, suicide, suicide of father, survival, women, love affair, alienation, wilderness, coming of age, parent child relationship, countryside, father daughter sex, gas station ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
scotland, scottish highlands, highlands
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Story:
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