Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories
- sombre
- measured
Sombre, measured, measured drama / arthouse, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Saigon, early 2000s. Photography student Vu has just arrived from Vietnam's backwaters and is immediately attracted to his handsome roommate Thang, who works odd jobs as a bouncer and low-level drug dealer. Entranced by the nocturnal rhythms of Thang's world, Vu follows him around the city where he meets Van, a ballet-cum-exotic dancer and Thang's sometimes-girlfriend.
Our read · Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories (2015) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · arthouse · berlin entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. 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 Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories
What watching it is actually like.
“You want an atmospheric Vietnamese mood piece about youth drawn into Saigon's nocturnal underbelly.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if loose narrative or drug-world drift feels aimless.
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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