Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord (2021) poster
2021 · documentary · crime

Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord

Directed by Eva Müller, Michael Schmitt1h 36m2021
ElsewhereIMDb7.36k
  • sombre
  • twisty
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Sombre, steady, measured documentary / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Max S. reveals how he built a drug empire from his childhood bedroom in this story that inspired the series "How to Sell Drugs Online."

Our read · Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord (2021) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded documentary · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold 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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