A Rough Draft
- kinetic
- inventive
- cold
- twisty
Neutral, breathless, measured fantasy / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Young Muscovite Kirill is a talented designer of computer games. One day, he is completely erased from the memory of everyone he knew and loved. Kirill learns that he has been chosen for an important and mysterious mission: to become a customs officer between parallel worlds, of which there are dozens in the universe. Will Kirill unravel the mystery of these worlds and who controls them? And is our Earth really just an imaginary "draft" -- a parallel world -- which in reality does not exist ...
Our read · A Rough Draft (2018) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal fantasy · sci-fi · action entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of A Rough Draft
What watching it is actually like.
“You want Russian sci-fi about parallel worlds and a game designer turned customs officer.”
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The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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