Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
Heavy, measured, extreme thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire. Assistant Chief Constable of the Manchester Police, Peter Hunter, is called in to oversee the West Yorkshire Police's Ripper investigation and see what they could have missed.
Our read · Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded thriller · crime · drama entry — extreme 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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The shape of Red Riding
What watching it is actually like.
“You want bleak Yorkshire Ripper corruption drama with Paddy Considine's moral fury.”
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The reading.
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