Fast Color (2019) poster
2019 · thriller · sci-fi · supernatural · music

Fast Color

Directed by Julia Hart1h 42m2019
ElsewhereIMDb6.17kRT83%Metacritic64
  • measured
  • redemptive
  • tender
Movie DNA

Neutral, measured, measured thriller / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home.

Our read · Fast Color (2019) reads as a neutral, measured, inventive thriller · sci-fi · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive 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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You want intimate superpower drama about mothers, drought, and going home.

ends upliftingit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 15attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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Skip it tonightYou expect Marvel spectacle or a tightly plotted genre thriller.

DNA · twelve axes

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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.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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