Official poster for Emptiness (2020)

Emptiness

Jan 24, 2020 1h 34mDrama

6.8IMDb

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LEI and WONG clandestinely arrive to Ecuador, on their way to the port city of Guayaquil.From here LEI plans to continue her journey to New York, but CHANG, a bipolar mobster will decide her fate.WONG unwillingly gets entangled in the web of corruption that operates the encroachment of Chinese immigrants.

Signature: Drama · Craft · Tension

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How Emptiness actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve core traits Nutevio tracks across every film and series.

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Emptiness reads strongest on Emotion, Craft and Wonder.

EmotionPresent6.8

How much it is designed to move you.

CraftPresent6.2

Filmmaking quality — direction, writing and recognition.

WonderPresent5.8

Scale, imagination and the sense of the extraordinary.

TensionPresent5.0

The sustained pressure it keeps you under.

DarknessPresent5.0

How bleak the tone and subject matter run.

HumourPresent5.0

How often it is genuinely funny, by design.

ActionPresent5.0

Physical momentum — chases, combat, set pieces.

MysteryPresent5.0

How much of the story is withheld and unravelled.

ComplexityPresent5.0

How much attention the structure and ideas demand.

RomancePresent5.0

How central love and intimacy are to the story.

FearPresent5.0

How much it is built to unsettle or frighten.

PaceLight4.5

How quickly the story moves scene to scene.

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What It's About

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LEI and WONG clandestinely arrive to Ecuador, on their way to the port city of Guayaquil. From here LEI plans to continue her journey to New York, but CHANG, a bipolar mobster will decide her fate. WONG unwillingly gets entangled in the web of corruption that operates the encroachment of Chinese immigrants. His only objective is to bring his twelve-year-old son from China.

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Release date: Jan 24, 2020
Runtime: 1h 34m
MPAA rating: —
Language: Spanish, Mandarin
Country: Colombia, Ecuador

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