Colossus: The Forbin Project
- sombre
- bleak
- cold
- epic-stakes
Sombre, steady, measured sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.
Our read · Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive sci-fi · thriller entry — measured in intensity, epic-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 Colossus
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“You want prescient Cold War dread about AI seizing control of humanity.”
Skip it tonight — You want hope tonight; this ending leaves mankind utterly dominated.
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