Out of the Blue
- heavy
- extreme
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Ordinary people find extraordinary courage in the face of madness. On 13–14 November 1990 that madness came to Aramoana, a small New Zealand seaside town, in the form of a lone gunman with a high-powered semi-automatic rifle. As he stalked his victims the terrified and confused residents were trapped for 24 hours while a handful of under-resourced and under-armed local policemen risked their lives trying to find him and save the survivors. Based on true events.
Our read · Out of the Blue (2006) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Out of the Blue
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