Resident Evil: Damnation
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
- twisty
- epic-stakes
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / animation, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →U.S. federal agent Leon S. Kennedy sneaks into the "East Slavic Republic" to verify rumors that Bio-Organic Weapons (BOWs) are being used in the country's civil war, which the U.S. and Russia are making preparations to jointly intervene in. Right after his infiltration, the U.S. government orders him to leave immediately. Determined to uncover the truth, Leon ignores the order and enters the battlefield to end the chain of tragedies caused by the BOWs.
Our read · Resident Evil: Damnation (2012) reads as a sombre, breathless, surreal action · animation · sci-fi entry — extreme 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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