The Fake
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, kinetic, extreme animation / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A convict returns to his home town to again torture his family, face his neighbors and try to destroy the local religious fanatics and their plans to keep money from the village people.
Our read · The Fake (2013) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded animation · drama · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of The Fake
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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