2004 · drama
Take Out
Directed by Sean Baker, Tsou Shih-ching1h 28m2004
An illegal Chinese immigrant falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt. Ming Ding has only until the end of the day to come up with the money.
Our read: Take Out (2004) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- sombre
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How Take Out feels to watch.
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“You want a grounded real-time portrait of an immigrant hustling to survive one day.”
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