Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- kinetic
- intense
- epic-stakes
Neutral, breathless, extreme sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
Our read · Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The reading.
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