Living
drama
148
Stimulating
Consistently challenges the viewer and rewards attention
Score Breakdown
Cognitive Stimulation/50
38
Educational Value/50
33
Craft & Quality/50
41
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Best Actor nominee (Bill Nighy). A London bureaucrat facing a terminal diagnosis decides to finally live.
Moderate cognitive demands with Kazuo Ishiguro's restrained adaptation of Kurosawa's Ikiru. Educational value from the postwar British social context and the philosophical examination of a life well-lived. Nighy's performance is achingly understated.
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