One Small Step (2018) poster
2018 · family · animation · adventure · fantasy

One Small Step

Directed by Andrew Chesworth, Bobby Pontillas8m2018
ElsewhereIMDb7.43kRT80%
  • cosy
  • kinetic
  • gentle
  • surreal
  • redemptive
  • tender
Movie DNA

Cosy, breathless, gentle family / animation, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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​Luna is a vibrant young Chinese-American girl who dreams of becoming an astronaut. From the day she witnesses a rocket launching into space on TV, Luna is driven to reach for the stars. In the big city, Luna lives with her loving father Chu, who supports her with a humble shoe repair business he runs out of his garage. As Luna grows up, she enters college, facing adversity of all kinds in pursuit of her dreams.

Our read · One Small Step (2018) reads as a cosy, breathless, surreal family · animation · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, epic-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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