Nowhere (Gregg Araki)
- sombre
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- signature
- intimate
Sombre, steady, measured drama / comedy, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. The moody Dark Smith, his bisexual girlfriend, her lesbian lover and their shy gay friend plan on attending the wildest party of the year. But they'll only make it if they can survive the drug trips, suicides, trysts, mutilations and alien abductions that occur as one surreal day unfolds.
Our read · Nowhere (Gregg Araki) (1997) reads as a sombre, steady, surreal drama · comedy · sci-fi 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 Nowhere
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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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