USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage
- heavy
- extreme
Heavy, steady, extreme action / war, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and relentless shark attacks.
Our read · USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded action · war · survival entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured 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 USS Indianapolis
What watching it is actually like.
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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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