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Sunset Song

2015 · 135 min · Director: Terence Davies ★ IMDb 6.4 · 4,290 ratings

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Spanning the 1910 decade, six years in the life of a girl named Chris, one of the numerous children of a tyrannical Scottish farmer. Years of high hopes and of disillusionment, of mirth and sorrow, of dreaming and toiling, of sweetness and violence, of love and hate, of peace and war. And in the end, the dignified loneliness of a new Chris, a woman who seems to have gone through several lives, now and forever as one with the land, the earth eternal...

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Sunset Song (2015) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Sadness 35%, Empathy 25%, Melancholy 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

  1. Hope10%

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Why it feels this way

The strongest emotional signals are Sadness, Empathy, Melancholy. Genres: Drama. AI estimate.

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Consider this title if you are looking for Sadness, Empathy and Melancholy. Its IMDb rating of 6.4/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 67/100.

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Emotional journey

AI · from subtitles
  • Sadness
  • Empathy
  • Love

Not enough subtitle evidence

No dominant emotion

Dominant emotion: Joy

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Dominant emotion: Love

Sadness
Empathy
Love
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.
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 3 %, then dips around 28 %, then peaks around 88 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensitySadnessEmpathyLove
2.5 %≈ 3′Joy53 %30 %38 %17 %
7.5 %≈ 10′Tension61 %35 %48 %15 %
12.5 %≈ 17′Tension65 %44 %54 %14 %
17.5 %≈ 24′Sadness67 %57 %59 %14 %
22.5 %≈ 30′Sadness56 %50 %50 %13 %
27.5 %≈ 37′Sadness50 %41 %44 %12 %
32.5 %≈ 44′Sadness64 %54 %56 %13 %
37.5 %≈ 51′Sadness70 %51 %59 %24 %
42.5 %≈ 57′Love65 %24 %41 %48 %
47.5 %≈ 64′Love68 %13 %31 %68 %
52.5 %≈ 71′Love74 %23 %33 %73 %
57.5 %≈ 78′Love74 %23 %34 %74 %
62.5 %≈ 84′Love76 %22 %43 %74 %
67.5 %≈ 91′Love74 %36 %51 %58 %
72.5 %≈ 98′Tension73 %51 %56 %31 %
77.5 %≈ 105′Tension81 %63 %69 %17 %
82.5 %≈ 111′Tension90 %75 %81 %19 %
87.5 %≈ 118′Sadness95 %89 %88 %38 %
92.5 %≈ 125′Sadness95 %93 %88 %60 %
97.5 %≈ 132′Sadness91 %88 %83 %68 %
Icarus

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

AD
Agyness Deyn

Chris Guthrie

KB
Ken Blackburn

Peter Mullan

John Guthrie

SB
Stuart Bowman

KG
Kevin Guthrie

Ewan Tavendale

KB
Ken Blackburn

Galt

SB
Stuart Bowman

Alec Mutch

EB
Emily-Jane Boyle

Christine

EC
Ewan Comes

Newborn Guthrie Twin

MC
Maelly Comes

Newborn Guthrie Twin

AO
Ann Overstall Comfort

Mrs Hemans

RD
Ron Donachie

Uncle Tam

TD
Tom Duncan

McIvor

DG
David Ganly

Tink

NG
Niall Greig Fulton

John Brigson

CF
Caelan Fyfe

Toddler Ewan

JG
Jack Greenlees

Will Guthrie

GG
Gav Guilfoyle

2nd Government Man

LD
Linda Duncan McLaughlin

Auntie Janet

LH
Louise Haggerty

Marget Strachan

LH
Luca Humphries

Dod Guthrie

Details

Directed by
Terence Davies
Written by
Terence Davies, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Type
Movies
Released
2015
Runtime
135 min
Country
United Kingdom, Luxembourg
Genres
Drama
Ratings
★ IMDb 6.4 · 4,290 ratings
Feels mostly
Sadness
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