My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, measured, measured crime / drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place.
Our read · My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010) reads as a heavy, measured, surreal crime · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic 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 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
What watching it is actually like.
“You want Herzog's deadpan descent into a mind unraveling before your eyes.”
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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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