Coherence (2013)
- sombre
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
Sombre, steady, measured sci-fi / thriller, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.
Our read · Coherence (2013) (2013) reads as a sombre, steady, surreal sci-fi · thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic 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 Coherence
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a clever low budget dinner party reality bending puzzle.”
Skip it tonight — You want clear resolutions or flashy sci fi effects.
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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