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Blind Shaft

2003 · 92 min · Director: Yang Li, Li Yang ★ IMDb 7.5 · 3,139 ratings

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Two Chinese coal miners have hit upon the perfect scam: murder one of their fellow mine workers, make the death look like an accident, and extort money from the boss to keep the incident hushed up. For their latest "mark," they choose a naive teenager from a small village, and as they prepare to carry out their newest plan, things start to get complicated...

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Blind Shaft (2003) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Disturbing 30%, Anxiety 25%, Fear 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

  1. Fear20%

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Why it feels this way

The strongest emotional signals are Disturbing, Anxiety, Fear. Genres: Drama, Crime. AI estimate.

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Consider this title if you are looking for Disturbing, Anxiety and Fear. Its IMDb rating of 7.5/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 71/100.

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Emotional journey

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  • Tension
  • Disturbing
  • Empathy

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Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Disturbing

Dominant emotion: Empathy

Tension
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Emotional journey Emotional intensity over the film’s runtime, from quieter to stronger on a fixed 0–1 scale. Hatched intervals have insufficient subtitle evidence. The table provides the values. Not enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidence
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 8 %, then dips around 23 %, then peaks around 88 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityTensionDisturbingEmpathy
2.5 %≈ 2′Not enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidence
7.5 %≈ 7′Tension62 %58 %53 %18 %
12.5 %≈ 12′Tension65 %56 %60 %19 %
17.5 %≈ 16′Disturbing61 %41 %57 %19 %
22.5 %≈ 21′Disturbing48 %25 %41 %18 %
27.5 %≈ 25′Disturbing48 %31 %39 %30 %
32.5 %≈ 30′Tension64 %53 %49 %55 %
37.5 %≈ 35′Empathy71 %63 %53 %66 %
42.5 %≈ 39′Tension65 %59 %46 %60 %
47.5 %≈ 44′Empathy61 %55 %36 %58 %
52.5 %≈ 48′Empathy68 %59 %40 %65 %
57.5 %≈ 53′Empathy70 %55 %45 %70 %
62.5 %≈ 58′Empathy71 %54 %50 %69 %
67.5 %≈ 62′Disturbing80 %69 %68 %70 %
72.5 %≈ 67′Empathy84 %76 %76 %70 %
77.5 %≈ 71′Disturbing81 %74 %68 %68 %
82.5 %≈ 76′Empathy83 %75 %61 %71 %
87.5 %≈ 81′Tension88 %82 %70 %75 %
92.5 %≈ 85′Not enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidence
97.5 %≈ 90′Not enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidenceNot enough subtitle evidence
Riches to rags

Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.

Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

YL
Yixiang Li

LY
Li Yixiang

Song Jinming

Wang Baoqiang

Yuan Fengming

SW
Shuangbao Wang

WS
Wang Shuangbao

Tang Zhaoyang

JA
Jing Ai

Xiao Hong

BZ
Bao Zhenjiang

First Boss

SW
Sun Wei

Tang Zhaoxia

ZJ
Zhao Jun

Miss Ma

WY
Wang Yining

Mamasan

SH
Sun Haiying

Details

Directed by
Yang Li, Li Yang
Written by
Yang Li, Liu Qingbang, Li Yang
Type
Movies
Released
2003
Runtime
92 min
Country
Hong Kong, Germany
Genres
Drama, Crime
Ratings
★ IMDb 7.5 · 3,139 ratings
Feels mostly
Disturbing
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