Filth
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, breathless, extreme dark-comedy / crime, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A bigoted junkie cop suffering from borderline personality disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way in a bid to secure promotion.
Our read · Filth (2013) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive dark-comedy · crime · drama entry — extreme in intensity, intimate 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 Filth
What watching it is actually like.
“You want McAvoy's unrestrained corrupt-cop spiral in pitch-black Edinburgh satire.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if cocaine-fueled misogyny, sexual content, and self-destruction repulse you 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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