Hardwired
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
Sombre, breathless, measured sci-fi / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →After a tragic accident Luke Gibson is left with critical injuries and complete amnesia. A new technological breakthrough from the Hexx Corporation - a Psi-Comp Implant that's hardwired into Luke's brain - saves his life, but Luke soon finds out that this new technology comes with a price and that the Hexx Corporation harbors sinister plans for the new device.
Our read · Hardwired (2009) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · adventure · action entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold 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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The shape of Hardwired
What watching it is actually like.
“You want low budget sci-fi action with brain implant conspiracy and chases.”
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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