Plush (2013) poster
2013 · thriller · music

Plush

Directed by Catherine Hardwicke1h 38m2013
ElsewhereIMDb5.24kRT33%
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / music, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A young singer/songwriter, despite being married, becomes involved with her new guitarist, who she soon discovers has a dark past and may be a danger to her and those close to her.

Our read · Plush (2013) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate 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 dark erotic thriller about a singer and her dangerous new guitarist.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 18attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexsexual violence

Skip it tonightYou want fun rock stories or anything light and sexy.

DNA · twelve axes

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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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