The Philadelphia Experiment
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- cold
Sombre, breathless, measured adventure / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A secret government research project tries reviving the World War II "Philadelphia Experiment," which was an attempt to create a cloaking device to render warships invisible. When the experiment succeeds, it brings back the original ship (the Eldridge) that disappeared during the first test in 1943 - which brings death and destruction to the 21st century. It's up to the sole survivor of the first experiment and his granddaughter to stop it.
Our read · The Philadelphia Experiment (2012) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive adventure · sci-fi · thriller entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold 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 The Philadelphia Experiment
What watching it is actually like.
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