“This is not a game. This is real.”
Provisional dossier. Metrics derived from the systematic pipeline (method v1.1-metric-fix); curatorial reading pending. The shape below is what the open record has produced so far — read it as a draft, not a verdict.
Settled — broad alignment with pockets of dissent.
Active — the gap is current, unresolved, and generating heat.
Persistent — returning regularly to cultural attention.
Installed — the work recurs without invitation; it has moved in.
Legible — some motif-tracking, but not theory-heavy.
Entrenched — deep devotion, often shaped by initial rejection and reclamation.
Radical — the work refused every known shape and chose another.
Extreme — the work moves bodies; crying, panic, awe, nausea in the record.
Selective — available to prepared viewers; rewards prior knowledge.
Spreading — occasional reference outside film culture; some imagery in wider circulation.
Acknowledged — named as an influence by a handful of subsequent filmmakers.
Revised — time has shifted the reading somewhat; the initial verdict has softened or hardened.
Provocative — content was considered transgressive; controversy around what it showed or said.
Climax (2018) directed by Gaspar Noé. Curated baseline artifact for metric calibration and systematic scoring initialization.