Savages
- heavy
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
Heavy, steady, extreme crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel that kidnapped their shared girlfriend.
Our read · Savages (2012) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded crime · drama · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Savages
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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