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2013 · romance · drama

So Young

Directed by Vicky Zhao Wei2h 11m2013
ElsewhereIMDb6.42k
  • gentle
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Neutral, steady, gentle romance / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Although new friendships and new love await her, a college freshman discovers that university life is not as simple as she had hoped.

Our read · So Young (2013) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded romance · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured 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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You want a vibrant coming-of-age romance about college life and first loves.

ends bittersweetyou’ll feel glowing aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 5attention 2/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou want mature or plot-heavy stories instead of youthful emotions.

DNA · twelve axes

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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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