Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
- sombre
Sombre, steady, measured drama / political, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to use the ransom money as reinvestment in the factory.
Our read · Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · 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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The shape of Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a sly Bertolucci drama of a father using his son's ransom to save his factory.”
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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