Headshot
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A young man washes ashore, his memory gone - but his past comes back to haunt him after he is nursed back to health and his killing ability is needed when he takes on a powerful drug lord.
Our read · Headshot (2016) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · thriller · indonesian entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Headshot
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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