The War of the Worlds: Next Century
- heavy
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, steady, measured sci-fi / drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Poland, Christmastime. A band of hyperintelligent, bloodthirsty Martians take over the country and enlist hapless television newscaster Iron Idem as the voice of their propaganda machine. But when Iron dares to go off message, he makes an enemy even greater than the aliens—the state itself.
Our read · The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981) reads as a heavy, steady, surreal sci-fi · drama · polish entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. 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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