Crazy, Not Insane
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Heavy, steady, measured documentary / slasher, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Fascinated by the human brain and its capacity for ruthlessness, psychiatrist Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent her life investigating the interior lives of violent people. With each case, she came closer to developing a unified field theory of what makes a killer. Along the way - steering away from the conventional wisdom of her colleagues - she explored the world of multiple personality disorder.
Our read · Crazy, Not Insane (2020) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive documentary · slasher 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 Crazy, Not Insane
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“You want a serious documentary probing trauma, psychology, and what makes killers.”
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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