Embrace of the Serpent

Name: Embrace of the Serpent
Released: 2015
Cast: Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Miguee

2015 · Movie · PG-13

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Audience evidenceThe verdict — who this is for, by the receipts

Made first for older men 1

Embrace of the Serpent's audience scores lean most toward older men at 95 of 100 1. Its overall reach is rated targeted — targeted reach aimed at a specific demographic segment 2. Relative to the expected cast make-up for its production origin, on-screen representation registers above the baseline for Indigenous and White and below it for Hispanic and Black 3. On content balance it reads entertainment-first at 7 of 100, weighting storytelling over explicit messaging 4.

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Audience scoreolder men 95 of 100 is the top quadrant.WhatSphere audience model, score_version 1
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ReachAudience breadth rated targeted.WhatSphere audience model, score_version 1
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RepresentationRepresentation vs production-origin baseline: Indigenous 97, White 66, Hispanic 7, Black 31.WhatSphere representation model, score_version 1
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Content balanceContent balance entertainment-first at 7 of 100.WhatSphere content-balance model, score_version 1

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Synopsis

The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.