Hair (1979) poster
1979 · musical · drama

Hair

Directed by Miloš Forman2h 1m1979
ElsewhereIMDb7.544kRT83%Metacritic68TMDB7.3742
  • warm
  • brisk
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, measured musical / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.

Our read · Hair (1979) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive musical · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes 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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What watching it is actually like.

You want big hippie musical numbers that turn into a Vietnam gut punch.

ends devastatingit leaves you shakena rollercoastergrips by minute 5attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upnuditydrug use

Skip it tonightSkip if nudity, drugs, and a brutal final turn will kill the sing-along mood.

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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