In Order of Disappearance
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Sombre, kinetic, measured crime / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of an escalating underworld gang war between Serbian drug dealers and a sociopathic criminal mastermind known only as “The Count.”
Our read · In Order of Disappearance (2014) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive crime · comedy · thriller 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 In Order of Disappearance
What watching it is actually like.
“You want deadpan Norwegian snow-country revenge with grim laughs and snow.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if subtitled crime violence and heroin grief feel too bleak tonight.
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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