Manborg
- kinetic
- intense
- surreal
- signature
- funny
Neutral, breathless, measured sci-fi / action, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →The evil Count Draculon and his army of demons have conquered Earth, but a young soldier who lost his life in the first war against Hell has reawakened in the future as MANBORG! Together with a crew of post-apocalyptic rebels, the half-man half-machine hero will fight to defeat Draculon and take back the planet!
Our read · Manborg (2011) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal sci-fi · action · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate 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 Manborg
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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