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2006 · thriller · animation · action · drama

Princess

Directed by Anders Morgenthaler1h 22m2006
ElsewhereIMDb6.83kRT54%
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller / animation, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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The story of August who loses his beloved sister Christina, a former porn star known as The Princess. He adopts Christina's five-year-old daughter Mia. Weighed down by grief and guilt, August breaks down and with Mia in tow, he embarks on a mission of vengeance to erase Christina's pornographic legacy.

Our read · Princess (2006) reads as a heavy, kinetic, surreal thriller · animation · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. 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 brutally honest adult animation about vengeance, grief, and porn's human cost.

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Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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Skip it tonightSkip if extreme sexual content, violence, or a child amid darkness will scar your evening.

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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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