Earth Days (2009)
Neutral, steady, measured documentary, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →The story of our growing awareness and understanding of the environmental crisis and emergence, during the 1960s and '70s, of popular movement to confront it.
Our read · Earth Days (2009) (2009) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded documentary entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured 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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The shape of Earth Days
What watching it is actually like.
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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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