DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family (2020) poster
2020 · animation · action

DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family

Directed by Brandon Vietti31m2020
ElsewhereIMDb5.52kRT78%
  • warm
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • redemptive
  • tender
Movie DNA

Warm, breathless, extreme animation / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Tragedy strikes the Batman's life again when Robin Jason Todd tracks down his birth mother only to run afoul of the Joker. An adaptation of the 1988 comic book storyline of the same name.

Our read · DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family (2020) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive animation · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive 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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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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