Strange Days
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
Sombre, breathless, extreme sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute. With the help of bodyguard Mace, he starts to investigate and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of murder, blackmail and intrigue.
Our read · Strange Days (1995) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · thriller · cyberpunk entry — extreme 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 Strange Days
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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