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Paradise Hills

2019 · 95 min · Director: Alice Waddington ★ IMDb 5.3 · 18,876 ratings

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In an undetermined future, society has divided into two sub-types: upper-class or "Uppers", and the rest of the world, mid and lower-class, named "Lowers". Uma is a privileged young woman who is adamantly against marrying another Upper, named Son. Instead, she falls in love with a working class young man named Markus. She is thus sent to Paradise Hills, a school for young ladies located in a remote island in the middle of the ocean. Waking up in Paradise not knowing how she arrived there, she soon meets other students: Amarna, a pop-star who was sent after she decided to sing her own songs against the will of the company that controls her records. Chloe, a plus-sized young lady those parents want to turn thin and compliant. And Yu, a Lower who was sent by her aunt and uncle after refusing to inherit her family business. Uma then meets the eccentric Duchess, Paradise Hills' headmaster. She tries to convince Uma to marry up, just as her mother wants her to. Uma soon suspects a hidden purpose behind all the facility's luxuries. Its elegant staging and the daily sessions of make-up, hairdressing, good manners and therapy are not working on any of her classmates, either. While Amarna and Uma concoct a plan to escape; the latter becomes shocked when Markus appears as part of the Paradise Hills' staff. Amarna, who had started to feel attracted to Uma, feels bitter about this. Finally, alerted by Amarna about their dinners being laced with a sleep-inducing substance, Uma manages to investigate Paradise Hills at night. Discovering the bone-chilling truth: the island is a giant control room to analyze the students' behavior and appearance, in order to be replicated by Lower women, hired to replace the Uppers after the original women are killed. With time running against her, Uma and the rest of her girl gang must find a way to survive before they are up next.

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Paradise Hills (2019) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Confusion 30%, Anxiety 25%, Disturbing 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

  1. Hope15%
  2. Awe10%

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The strongest emotional signals are Confusion, Anxiety, Disturbing. Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi. AI estimate.

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  • Tension
  • Disturbing
  • Empathy

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Dominant emotion: Disturbing

Dominant emotion: Tension

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Dominant emotion: Hope

Dominant emotion: Sadness

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Intensity dips around 3 %, then dips around 23 %, then peaks around 78 %.Ending hidden

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%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityTensionDisturbingEmpathy
2.5 %≈ 2′Disturbing50 %43 %35 %22 %
7.5 %≈ 7′Tension56 %51 %35 %31 %
12.5 %≈ 12′Empathy55 %49 %31 %36 %
17.5 %≈ 17′Tension51 %45 %33 %33 %
22.5 %≈ 21′Tension50 %41 %36 %36 %
27.5 %≈ 26′Empathy55 %32 %33 %50 %
32.5 %≈ 31′Empathy61 %24 %19 %54 %
37.5 %≈ 36′Hope65 %33 %20 %43 %
42.5 %≈ 40′Tension66 %53 %34 %38 %
47.5 %≈ 45′Tension69 %64 %44 %46 %
52.5 %≈ 50′Tension79 %73 %64 %54 %
57.5 %≈ 55′Disturbing81 %74 %68 %54 %
62.5 %≈ 59′Hope78 %73 %57 %51 %
67.5 %≈ 64′Tension83 %79 %70 %51 %
72.5 %≈ 69′Disturbing90 %83 %81 %60 %
77.5 %≈ 74′Sadness93 %85 %80 %65 %
82.5 %≈ 78′Tension89 %78 %73 %63 %
87.5 %≈ 83′Empathy81 %61 %60 %63 %
92.5 %≈ 88′Disturbing77 %58 %58 %57 %
97.5 %≈ 93′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

Milla Jovovich

The Duchess

HT
Hunter Tremayne

Drunk Guest

JM
Johnny Melville

Senior II

LC
Liliana Cabal

Son's Assistant

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Karina Kolokolchykova

PH Girl

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Daniel Horvath

Favorite I

MM
Matthew Mills

Technician II

LG
Lesley Grant

PH Girl

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Oliver Ritchie

Assistant I

CM
Candela May

PH Girl

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Joey Sordyl

Favorite II

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Nick Dutton

Young Nurse

Details

Directed by
Alice Waddington
Written by
Nacho Vigalondo, Sofía Cuenca, Alice Waddington, Brian DeLeeuw
Type
Movies
Released
2019
Runtime
95 min
Country
Spain, United States
Ratings
★ IMDb 5.3 · 18,876 ratings
Feels mostly
Confusion
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