Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos
- kinetic
- intense
- surreal
- twisty
Neutral, breathless, measured adventure / fantasy, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A fugitive alchemist with mysterious abilities leads the Elric brothers to a distant valley of slums inhabited by the Milos, a proud people struggling against bureaucratic exploitation. Ed and Al quickly find themselves in the middle of a rising rebellion, as the exiled Milos lash out against their oppressors. At the heart of the conflict is Julia, a young alchemist befriended by Alphonse. She'll stop at nothing to restore the Milos to their former glory – even if that means harnessing the awful power of the mythical Philosopher's Stone.
Our read · Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (2011) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal adventure · fantasy · animation entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive 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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