Phoenix 2772
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- epic-stakes
Sombre, kinetic, measured sci-fi / tezuka, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Phoenix 2772 starts with twelve minutes without dialogue, much like a silent film, recalling the birth and education of Godo. In this brave new world, children are born in test tubes and are raised by computers and robots. Godo learns the skills that will make him into a great pilot, assisted by the robotic wonder Olga. Everything that Godo needs is provided for him until he eventually goes for training with his automaton companion. He soon realizes that the world is not what he expected...
Our read · Phoenix 2772 (1980) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · tezuka · epic entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent 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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The shape of Phoenix 2772
What watching it is actually like.
“You want an ambitious strange anime about creation, love and planetary sacrifice.”
Skip it tonight — You dislike weird existential sci-fi or heavy themes in animation.
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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