Save Yourselves!
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Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A young Brooklyn couple head upstate to disconnect from their phones and reconnect with themselves. Cut off from their devices, they miss the news that the planet is under attack.
Our read · Save Yourselves! (2020) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · sci-fi · space entry — measured in intensity, mid-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 Save Yourselves!
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a witty Brooklyn couple comedy that curdles into sci-fi dread.”
Skip it tonight — You need a hopeful ending or dislike millennial disaster irony.
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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