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2021 · thriller

Security

Directed by Peter Chelsom1h 58m2021
ElsewhereIMDb5.02k
  • sombre
  • cold
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Sombre, steady, measured thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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After the assault of a young woman in their seaside town, a security expert and his family get caught in a powerful riptide of secrets and lies.

Our read · Security (2021) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded thriller 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 an Italian thriller about family unraveling after a local assault.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakensteady all the waygrips by minute 15attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upsexual violencegraphic violencechild peril

Skip it tonightSkip if sexual violence or family secrets in a thriller will disturb you.

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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