Dirty Wars
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
- epic-stakes
Heavy, steady, measured documentary / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Investigative journalist, Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars, and examines how the US government has responded to international terrorist threats in ways that seem to go against the established laws of the land.
Our read · Dirty Wars (2013) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded documentary · drama · crime 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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