The Starving Games
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- cold
- funny
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / parody, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →In this Hunger Games spoof, Kantmiss Evershot must fight for her life in the 75th annual Starving Games, where she could also win an old ham, a coupon for a foot-long sub, and a partially eaten pickle.
Our read · The Starving Games (2013) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · parody entry — gentle in intensity, intimate 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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