Highlander: The Source
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, breathless, measured action / fantasy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →The world is falling into chaos. As he roams a crumbling city, Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander, remembers happier times before the love of his life left... Hopeless and alone, MacLeod finds his way to a band of immortal companions, including his mysterious friend Methos, and a mortal, Watcher Joe Dawson. Together this small group sets out on a quest to find the origin of the first Immortal.
Our read · Highlander: The Source (2007) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · fantasy · adventure entry — measured in intensity, epic-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 Highlander
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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