Always Shine
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, measured, measured thriller / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →On a trip to Big Sur, two friends, both actresses, try to reconnect with one another. Once alone, the women's suppressed jealousies and deep-seated resentments begin to rise, causing them to lose their grasp on not only the true nature of their relationship, but also their identities.
Our read · Always Shine (2016) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive thriller · drama · horror entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic 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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The shape of Always Shine
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“You want to be gripped by jealous tension between two ambitious friends.”
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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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