I'm Still Here
- measured
- gentle
- inventive
- cold
- intimate
Neutral, measured, gentle music / comedy, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →I'm Still Here is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, the film follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip-hop musician. The film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads and explores notions of courage and creative reinvention, as well as the ramifications of a life spent in the public eye.
Our read · I'm Still Here (2010) reads as a neutral, measured, surreal music · comedy · drama entry — gentle 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 I'm Still Here
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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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