5.0
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Secrets of the Shadow World (1999)
Secrets of the Shadow World (1999)
Overview
This three-part mini-series explores the mysterious and the mundane in a splash of digital dioramas that wipe across the screen in a cascade of electronic barfs. Zeroing in on the paranormal theories of UFO author John A. Keel, this leisurely exposition, which was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, sweeps the viewer into a candy-colored world of scintillating mysteries made all the more intriguing by culinary digressions.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Positive
Viewer Rating
5.0
Overview
This three-part mini-series explores the mysterious and the mundane in a splash of digital dioramas that wipe across the screen in a cascade of electronic barfs. Zeroing in on the paranormal theories of UFO author John A. Keel, this leisurely exposition, which was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, sweeps the viewer into a candy-colored world of scintillating mysteries made all the more intriguing by culinary digressions.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film's highly experimental and surreal nature, focusing on subjective experience and artistic expression, means its core subject matter lacks a strong, inherent political valence. It does not explicitly promote or critique specific political ideologies.
The movie features primarily traditional casting, consistent with the director's experimental and personal filmmaking approach from its era, without explicit DEI-driven character recasting. Its narrative focuses on personal melodrama and camp, rather than offering critical portrayals of traditional identities or making DEI themes central to its story.
Secondary
George Kuchar's "Secrets of the Shadow World" implicitly portrays LGBTQ+ themes by exploring non-normative desires and anxieties within a camp, melodramatic framework. The film's unique style and its director's queer sensibility contribute to an overall affirming depiction of diverse identities and experiences, validating outsider perspectives.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Secrets of the Shadow World is an original experimental film by George Kuchar, not an adaptation of existing material or a reboot with legacy characters. Consequently, there are no characters with prior established genders that could be subject to a gender swap.
This is an original experimental film by George Kuchar, not an adaptation of existing source material with pre-established characters or a biopic of historical figures. Therefore, no characters exist who were canonically or historically established as a different race prior to this film's production.
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