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2015 · adventure · drama · thriller · survival

Wildlike

Directed by Frank Hall Green1h 44m2015
ElsewhereIMDb6.66kRT93%Metacritic74
  • sombre
  • measured
Movie DNA

Sombre, measured, measured adventure / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau when her mother can’t care for her anymore. The living situation quickly takes a turn for the worse, and she runs away to rejoin her mother in Seattle. While on her dangerous journey of sleeping in cars and breaking into hotel rooms, she’s drawn to Rene, a lonesome backpacker looking for tranquility in the wilderness.

Our read · Wildlike (2015) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded adventure · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate 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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You want a quiet Alaska wilderness story of a teen escaping harm.

ends bittersweetit stays with youa slow buildgrips by minute 18attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upchild peril

Skip it tonightSkip if implied abuse of a minor or slow wilderness pacing drains you.

DNA · twelve axes

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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.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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