Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
Cosy, breathless, gentle family / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
Our read · Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded family · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive 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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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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