2008 · drama · thriller · social
The Wave
Directed by Dennis Gansel1h 47m2008
A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.
Our read: The Wave (2008) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · thriller · social entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
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