“I hurt people for a living.”
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.
Resolved — wide, durable agreement across critic and audience record.
Simmering — disagreement exists but has not hardened.
Inert — the work has receded from active discourse.
Quiet — the work does not follow viewers beyond the screening.
Layered — sustained interpretive activity; the film is being decoded.
Mainstream — no distinct devotional community has formed.
Conventional — works within accepted shapes and structures.
Engaged — notable response, contained within normal range.
Open — most viewers can enter without special context.
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.
Possessor (2020) directed by Brandon Cronenberg. Curated baseline artifact for metric calibration and systematic scoring initialization.