The Kid
- sombre
- intense
Sombre, steady, measured western / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →New Mexico Territory, 1880. Rio Cutler and his older sister Sara must abandon their home after an unfortunate event happens. In their desperate flee to Santa Fe, they cross paths with the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid and his gang, who are ruthlessly pursued by a posse led by Sheriff Pat Garret.
Our read · The Kid (2019) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded western · drama · action 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 The Kid
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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