iBoy
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- intense
Sombre, kinetic, measured action / sci-fi, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →After an accident, Tom wakes from a coma to discover that fragments of his smart phone have been embedded in his head, and worse, that returning to normal teenage life is impossible because he has developed a strange set of super powers.
Our read · iBoy (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded action · sci-fi · revenge entry — measured 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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The shape of iBoy
What watching it is actually like.
“You want gritty London teen sci-fi about trauma, revenge, and phone-powered powers.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if sexual assault backstory and grim vigilante violence feel too heavy 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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