The Admiral: Roaring Currents
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
Sombre, breathless, extreme war / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Admiral Yi Sun-sin faces a tough challenge when he is forced to defend his nation with just 13 battleships against 300 Japanese enemy ships in the Battle of Myeongryang.
Our read · The Admiral: Roaring Currents (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded war · action · korean 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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