Father's Day
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
- cold
- funny
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Ahab, a man obsessed with exacting a brutal, violent revenge on the man who murdered his dad, joins John, an eager priest, and Twink, a hot-headed street hustler, on an epic quest to find and defeat this mythical monster known as Chris Fuchman AKA The Father's Day Killer.
Our read · Father's Day (2011) reads as a sombre, breathless, surreal action · comedy · horror entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Father's Day
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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