Greetings (1968) poster
1968 · comedy · counterculture · indie

Greetings

Directed by Brian De Palma1h 27m1968
ElsewhereIMDb5.64kRT89%TMDB5.5108
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / counterculture, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Three friends in New York City discuss how to dodge the draft and Vietnam, JFK's assassination, voyeurism, computer dating, and everything else.

Our read · Greetings (1968) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · counterculture · indie entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured 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 loose 1960s satirical sketches on draft dodging, sex, and New York life.

ends unsettlingit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 3attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upnudityexplicit sex

Skip it tonightYou want a conventional plot or polished modern comedy.

DNA · twelve axes

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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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