Odysseus & the Isle of Mists
- brisk
- inventive
- cold
Neutral, breathless, measured adventure / fantasy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →King Odysseus has been away from Ithaca for twenty years.The first ten he spent fighting the Trojan War the last ten he spent fighting to get home. Among his adventures is the tale Homer felt was too horrible to tell, the missing book of the Odyssey known as The Isle of the Mists. Here the Warrior King and his men face the Goddess of the Underworld and her winged horrific creatures.
Our read · Odysseus & the Isle of Mists (2008) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal adventure · fantasy · monster entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes 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 reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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