Assassination of a High School President
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Neutral, breathless, gentle comedy / mystery, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a principal's office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke sets out to unmask the thief.
Our read · Assassination of a High School President (2008) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive comedy · mystery · crime entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent 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 Assassination of a High School President
What watching it is actually like.
“You want witty high school noir with gumshoe energy and dry laughs.”
Skip it tonight — Quirky teen conspiracy plots feel too smug or slight tonight.
The reading.
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.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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