The Day Shall Come (2019) poster
2019 · comedy · political

The Day Shall Come

Directed by Chris Morris1h 27m2019
ElsewhereIMDb5.94kRT65%Metacritic70
  • kinetic
  • cold
  • funny
Movie DNA

Neutral, breathless, measured comedy / political, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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An impoverished leader of a small religious commune in Miami is offered cash to save his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for an FBI agent, who plans to turn him into a criminal by fueling his madcap revolutionary dreams.

Our read · The Day Shall Come (2019) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive comedy · political entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes 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 sharp satire on FBI manufacturing a terrorist plot from nothing.

ends unsettlingit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 7attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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Skip it tonightYou want feel-good laughs without critiquing law enforcement.

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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