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Movie poster: Like Crude Oil (2009)
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Like Crude Oil

2009 Animation
6.0 / 10 · TMDB

A young man inhabits a city perpetually slick with rain and the sheen of spilled crude. His existence is a muted loop: the grim factory, the tiny apartment, the silent watch from a smeared window. The only constant flow is the black droplets sliding down the glass, leaving viscous trails that mirror the stagnation within. In this world bleached of color, the thick, pervasive oil becomes more than pollution; it is the atmosphere, the rhythm, and slowly, the very essence of his being, as the line between man and medium dissolves.

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Year 2009
Country Spain
Genre Animation
Director J. D. Pardo
Rating TMDB: 6.0/10 (1 votes)

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Yuki Masuda's short film is a stark, poetic study of industrial alienation. The minimalist animation and desaturated palette create a profound sense of weight, where every movement seems to fight against a viscous reality.

What lingers after the final frame is the haunting, rhythmic echo of dripping oil—a metaphor for both environmental and spiritual residue that becomes inseparable from the self. A quietly powerful environmental fable. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: J. D. Pardo

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Viscous melancholy, hypnotic dripping, the heavy silence of saturated grey.

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