Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
- heavy
- slow-burn
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- signature
Heavy, slow-burn, measured drama / experimental, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence drives the story which delivers some weird and fascinating visuals.
Our read · Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, surreal drama · experimental · prison entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. 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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“You want Takashi Miike's surreal homoerotic juvenile prison mystery with wild visuals.”
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