Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal
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Neutral, kinetic, gentle drama / tv-movie, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Based on a true story. Five high school cheerleaders, including the daughter of the school principal, run amok -- and teachers, parents and administrators allow them to get away with a wide range of scandalous behavior. Known as the "Fab Five," the girls disregard school rules, drink alcohol and post suggestive pictures on the Internet. But when the new cheerleading coach attempts to discipline them, her superiors ask her to resign.
Our read · Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal (2008) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · tv-movie · coming-of-age 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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