Idiots and Angels
- sombre
- surreal
- cold
- signature
Sombre, steady, measured animation / comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Angel, a selfish rotter is hanging around in a local bar, groping the wife of the barman and dealing with weapons. One morning he wakes up finding a pair of wings growing at his back. These wings do good deeds against his nature. But suddenly he finds himself fighting those who want these wings for their own dark plans.
Our read · Idiots and Angels (2008) reads as a sombre, steady, surreal animation · comedy · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. 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 Idiots and Angels
What watching it is actually like.
“You want surreal wordless adult animation about a selfish man sprouting unwanted angel wings.”
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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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