How to Make Money Selling Drugs (2012) poster
2012 · documentary

How to Make Money Selling Drugs

Directed by Matthew Cooke1h 36m2012
ElsewhereIMDb7.67kRT76%Metacritic69
  • kinetic
  • cold
  • twisty
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Neutral, breathless, measured documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Ten easy steps show you how to make money from drugs, featuring a series of interviews with drug dealers, prison employees, and lobbyists arguing for tougher drug laws.

Our read · How to Make Money Selling Drugs (2012) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded documentary entry — measured in intensity, epic-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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You want a sharp satirical takedown of the war on drugs.

ends unsettlingit stays with yougrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-updrug usegraphic violence

Skip it tonightSkip if drug-trade documentaries feel too heavy before bed.

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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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