Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America
- heavy
- cold
Heavy, steady, measured documentary / tv-movie, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Louis meets the Phelps family — the people at the heart of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church. The Phelps have rabid anti-homosexual beliefs, and often campaign at the funerals of American soldiers. They believe that every tragedy in the world is God's punishment for homosexuality.
Our read · Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America (2007) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded documentary · tv-movie entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes 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 Louis Theroux
What watching it is actually like.
“You want Louis Theroux calmly probing the Westboro Baptist Church's worldview.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if hateful protests and religious extremism will anger or sadden you.
The reading.
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