What is Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives's IQ Score?

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives has an IQ Score of 164/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Masterclass tier. The score breaks down to 49/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 32/50 Educational Value, and 41/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives educational?

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is moderate on educational value, 32/50 on TVI's rubric. Some learning happens, but it isn't the show's primary work.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's IQ Score is calculated as round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers: Masterclass (≥160), Stimulating (≥130), Competent (≥100), Passive (≥70), and Numbing (<70). The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives , IQ Score 164/200

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives has an IQ Score of 164/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-06-17·Methodology

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164/ 200

Masterclass

Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

Cinematic Score/50

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Why you should trust this score

Scored under Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH

Physician and founding editor. Maintains the adult catalog against the published rubric and reviews the rubric application.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.2

Formula

round(C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4

Database scale

2,338 titles, version-controlled

TVI Canon

Apichatpong Weerasethakul →

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The TVI Take

2010 Palme d'Or winner. A dying Thai man is visited by his dead wife's ghost and his missing son (now a monkey spirit) as he recalls past incarnations.

Exceptionally high cognitive demands, the film's dreamlike structure and Thai Buddhist cosmology require active contemplation. Educational value from the cultural and spiritual framework. Apichatpong Weerasethakul's most accessible yet still deeply challenging work.

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