The Waiting

Name: The Waiting
Director: Unknown
Genre: Animation, Documentary
Released: 2023-02-18
Duration: 15 min
Rating: 6.4

Feb 18, 2023 0h 15mAnimationDocumentary

7.5IMDb

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A biologist describes her research into various species of frogs in the rainforest of Central America and their mysterious disappearance as if it were a criminal case.Brilliantly animated drawings accompany her vivid scientific analysis.

Signature: Craft · Humour · Wonder

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Nutevio DNA

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

Signature profile

The Waiting reads strongest on Craft, Wonder and Humour.

CraftPresent5.7

Filmmaking quality — direction, writing and recognition.

WonderPresent5.6

Scale, imagination and the sense of the extraordinary.

HumourPresent5.4

How often it is genuinely funny, by design.

ComplexityPresent5.4

How much attention the structure and ideas demand.

PacePresent5.3

How quickly the story moves scene to scene.

TensionPresent5.0

The sustained pressure it keeps you under.

DarknessPresent5.0

How bleak the tone and subject matter run.

EmotionPresent5.0

How much it is designed to move you.

ActionPresent5.0

Physical momentum — chases, combat, set pieces.

MysteryPresent5.0

How much of the story is withheld and unravelled.

RomancePresent5.0

How central love and intimacy are to the story.

FearPresent5.0

How much it is built to unsettle or frighten.

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A biologist describes her research into various species of frogs in the rainforest of Central America and their mysterious disappearance as if it were a criminal case. Brilliantly animated drawings accompany her vivid scientific analysis.

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