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2014 · drama · thriller · music

Locke

Directed by Steven Knight1h 25m2014
ElsewhereIMDb7.1167kRT91%Metacritic83
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense
  • tender
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Ivan Locke has worked hard to craft a good life for himself. Tonight, that life will collapse around him. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his career, Ivan receives a phone call that sets in motion a series of events that will unravel his family, job, and soul.

Our read · Locke (2014) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · thriller · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender 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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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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