Take Off
- warm
- brisk
Warm, breathless, measured sports / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →Cha Heon-tae, a Korean-American, was adopted with his sister to American parents. He appears on a Korean television program in search of his mother. Since Heon-tae is a trained alpine skier, he is approached by Coach Bang who wants to recruit members for a new national ski jumping team for the approaching 1998 Winter Olympics.
Our read · Take Off (2009) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded sports · drama · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Take Off
What watching it is actually like.
“You enjoy long inspiring sports dramas about underdogs building a team.”
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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