The Broken
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, measured, measured thriller / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting to uncover who the imposter could be, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that her family and closest friends are somehow involved in, leaving her with no one to trust.
Our read · The Broken (2008) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive thriller · drama · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of The Broken
What watching it is actually like.
“You want elegant doppelganger dread that peels reality back slowly.”
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The reading.
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