We Are Little Zombies
- kinetic
- surreal
Neutral, breathless, measured drama / youth, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of their emotions.
Our read · We Are Little Zombies (2019) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal drama · youth · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent 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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The shape of We Are Little Zombies
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a vibrant Japanese coming-of-age about processing grief through music.”
Skip it tonight — Films dealing with child suicide, abuse and death of parents are too heavy.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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