Unknown
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / mystery, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
Our read · Unknown (2011) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · mystery · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Unknown
What watching it is actually like.
“You want Liam Neeson identity-paranoia thrills in snowy Berlin.”
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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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