Hi, Mom!
- sombre
- brisk
- inventive
Sombre, kinetic, measured comedy / satire, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Vietnam vet Jon Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the people in the apartment across the street. His obsession with making films leads him to fall in with a radical 'Black Power' group, which in turn leads him to carry out a bizarre act of urban terrorism.
Our read · Hi, Mom! (1970) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive comedy · satire · counterculture entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic 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 Hi, Mom!
What watching it is actually like.
“You want early De Palma satire swinging from peeping-tom farce to incendiary provocation.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if on-screen sexual assault and explosive nihilism will ruin the night.
The reading.
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.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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