Tickled (2016)
- sombre
- brisk
- surreal
- bleak
Sombre, kinetic, measured documentary, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.
Our read · Tickled (2016) (2016) reads as a sombre, kinetic, surreal documentary entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic 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 Tickled
What watching it is actually like.
“You want strange true story doc uncovering fetish and cyberbullying empire.”
Skip it tonight — You want light docs or anything involving tickling or online abuse.
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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