Almost Home
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- funny
Cosy, breathless, gentle adventure / animation, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A group of aliens searching for a new planet on which to make home, with little success. Promotional short for Dreamworks Animation's forthcoming feature, Home.
Our read · Almost Home (2014) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded adventure · animation · sci-fi entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender 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 Almost Home
What watching it is actually like.
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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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