Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart (2014) poster
2014 · crime · thriller · drama · slasher

Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart

Directed by Cédric Anger1h 51m2014
ElsewhereIMDb6.43k
  • heavy
  • measured
  • intense
  • bleak
  • cold
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Heavy, measured, measured crime / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Between 1978 and 1979, the inhabitants of the Oise are in fear of a maniac who kills several hitchhikers and escape the police. He was then dubbed "the killer of the Oise" is actually a shy young policeman who will investigate his own murder, only to lose control of the situation.

Our read · Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart (2014) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded crime · thriller · drama 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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You want a chilling based-on-true serial killer story focused on the perpetrator cop.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakensteady all the waygrips by minute 15attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violence

Skip it tonightYou avoid serial killer or true crime thrillers, especially with police corruption.

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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.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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