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2015 · documentary · political

Deep Web

Directed by Alex Winter1h 29m2015
ElsewhereIMDb6.910kRT79%
  • sombre
  • gentle
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, gentle documentary / political, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Deep Web gives the inside story of one of the most important and riveting digital crime sagas of the century -- the arrest of Ross William Ulbricht, the 30-year-old entrepreneur convicted of being 'Dread Pirate Roberts,' creator and operator of online black market Silk Road. As the only film with exclusive access to the Ulbricht family, Deep Web explores how the brightest minds and thought leaders behind the Deep Web and Bitcoin are now caught in the crosshairs of the battle for control of a future inextricably linked to technology, with our digital rights hanging in the balance.

Our read · Deep Web (2015) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded documentary · political entry — gentle in intensity, mid-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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You want a slick primer on Silk Road, encryption, and digital crime politics.

ends ambiguousit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 5attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-updrug use

Skip it tonightSkip if talking-head crypto crime docs feel dry for a late night.

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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.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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