Charly
- sombre
- brisk
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / science fiction, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he struggles with whether or not what was done to him was right.
Our read · Charly (1968) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · science fiction entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Charly
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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