Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
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Neutral, kinetic, gentle documentary, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Pro-intelligent design scholars and scientists are often chastised, fired or denied tenured positions by those who believe in Darwin's theory of evolution.
Our read · Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded documentary entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes 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 Expelled
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a culture-war documentary guaranteed to start an argument afterward.”
Skip it tonight — You reject creationist talking points or want actual science 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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