The Net
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
Heavy, breathless, extreme crime / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Angela Bennett is a freelance computer systems analyst who tracks down software viruses. At night she hooks up to the internet and chats to others 'surfing the net'. While de-bugging a new high-tech game for a cyber friend, she comes across a top secret program and becomes the target of a mysterious organization who will stop at nothing to erase her identity and her existence, in order to protect the project.
Our read · The Net (1995) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive crime · drama · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, epic-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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The shape of The Net
What watching it is actually like.
“You want paranoid nineties cyber-thriller comfort food with Sandra Bullock on the run.”
Skip it tonight — Dated dial-up aesthetics annoy you or you need action smarter than identity theft.
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.
Eight films that read most like this one.
Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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