Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
- surreal
- cold
- twisty
Heavy, breathless, measured animation / fantasy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Explorer Bruce Wayne accidentally unleashes an ancient evil, and returns to Gotham after being away for two decades. There, Batman battles Lovecraftian supernatural forces and encounters allies and enemies such as Green Arrow, Ra's al Ghul, Mr. Freeze, Killer Croc, Two-Face and James Gordon.
Our read · Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (2023) reads as a heavy, breathless, surreal animation · fantasy · 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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