Bringing Out the Dead
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 1999 |
| Country | United States |
| Director | Martin Scorsese |
| Cast | Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore |
| Genre | Drama |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | Bringing Out the Dead | – |
| Español | Al límite | Al limite |
| Français | À tombeau ouvert | A tombeau ouvert |
| Deutsch | Bringing Out the Dead | – |
| Português | Vivendo no Limite | Vivendo no Limite |
| Italiano | Al di là della vita | Al di la della vita |
| Русский | Воскрешая мертвецов | Voskreshaya mertvetsov |
| 中文（简体） | 穿梭阴阳界 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 穿梭陰陽界 | – |
| 한국어 | 비상근무 | Bisang Geunmu |
| ไทย | – | – |
| Tiếng Việt | – | – |
| Bahasa Indonesia | Bringing Out the Dead | – |
| 日本語 | 救命士 | Kyūmeishi |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which the duty to save and spiritual exhaustion collide within nocturnal emergency labor
■ Synopsis
A burned-out paramedic wanders through night shifts haunted by the lives he cannot save.
■ RECIPE Tags
#FailedSalvation #SpiritualExhaustion #EmergencyLabor #GuiltHaunting
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Can a rescuer survive repeated failure to save
Reason: Professional duty becomes inseparable from accumulated guilt and psychic collapse
Related Film: Taxi Driver - Middle: Can mercy exist inside a system that only manages crisis
Reason: Emergency care responds to suffering without repairing the conditions that produce it
Related Film: The Hospital - Core: Can salvation require accepting the limits of salvation
Reason: The protagonist’s release depends on surrendering the fantasy of absolute rescue
Related Film: Ikiru
■ Secondary Axes
- Night city as purgatory: Urban space becomes a circuit of damage, repetition, and judgment
Related Film: After Hours - Caregiver collapse: The one assigned to save others becomes spiritually endangered
Related Film: First Reformed
■ Person
- Director: Martin Scorsese
- Cast: Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore
■ Structural Tags
#RescueLimit #GuiltLoop #PurgatorialCircuit
■ Attribute Tags
#UnitedStates #1999Film #Drama
