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2021 · adventure · fantasy · drama

Freaks Out

Directed by Gabriele Mainetti2h 21m2021
ElsewhereIMDb6.98kRT70%Metacritic44
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense
  • epic-stakes
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, extreme adventure / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Four super-powered circus freaks find themselves trapped in war-torn Rome after their foster father is captured by the Nazis.

Our read · Freaks Out (2021) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive adventure · fantasy · drama entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured 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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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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