Baked in Brooklyn
- warm
- brisk
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A recent college graduate decides to sell marijuana on the streets of Manhattan after losing his job at a consulting firm. He soon meets the girl of his dreams. With an unsupportive girlfriend, an increase of clienteles, and the growing threats of being caught or killed, he soon realizes he is in way over his head.
Our read · Baked in Brooklyn (2016) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured 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 Baked in Brooklyn
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a stoner comedy about a broke grad selling weed and chasing a girl.”
Skip it tonight — You dislike drug dealing plots or low stakes millennial slacker stories.
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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