You Are My Pet (2011) poster
2011 · comedy · romance · anime

You Are My Pet

Directed by Kim Byung-gon1h 50m2011
ElsewhereIMDb5.61k
  • cosy
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • tender
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Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A woman finds a man in a box in front of her home and takes him in. She jokingly says she wants to keep him as her pet since the man reminds her of her childhood dog. The man agrees. Later the woman discovers that the man is a dance prodigy. Complications arise when her old flame from college returns.

Our read · You Are My Pet (2011) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance · anime entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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