listened · 2d
To Pimp a Butterfly 2015
★★★3.0
Archetype
The Provocateur
Suspicious of comfort. With a streak of The Genre Devotee.
12% of curators. Today's reading; it moves as they rate.
Work that unsettles: bleak, open, demanding. They trust discomfort more than reassurance and rate the thing that made they argue.
Where it goes wrong: Difficulty is not depth. Sometimes the cold thing is just cold, and you rated it up for the chill.
More about the Provocateur
- Avoids
- Comfort, closure, and being told how to feel. Warmth on its own reads as a sales pitch.
- How they rate
- Your five stars go to the difficult. Your one star goes to the smooth. The middle is where you are bored.
- Good company
- The Formalist respects you, the Ironist enjoys you, and the Comfort Seeker is your most productive opposite.
- Against the crowd
- You are the reliable hot take: harsher than the crowd on beloved warmth, kinder to the punishing and the strange.
Open to the unusual
In three lines
- More bleak than almost every curator. tonal darknesswarmbleak 68%
- More open than almost every curator. ambiguityresolvedopen-ended 65%
- More experimental than most curators. formal experimentationclassical in formformally daring 60%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
Badges
All 25- Omnivore · GoldMaxed
- Shelved · GoldMaxed
- Time traveler · GoldMaxed
- On a streak · Silver51 of 100
- Opinionated · Silver54 of 200
- First entry · BronzeMaxed
- Generous23 of 25
- Serialist9 of 10
Favorites
The five this curator would hand you first, in no particular order.
Films
Fight Club
Se7en
Hereditary
The Dark Knight
The Wolf of Wall Street
Seriess
Twin Peaks
The Wire
Fleabag
BEEF
Severance
Books
Blood Meridian
The Secret History
Piranesi
Dune
Beloved
Albums
Make a playlist- Hounds of Love
- To Pimp a Butterfly
- Illmatic
- good kid, m.A.A.d city
- In Rainbows
Games
Return of the Obra Dinn
Elden Ring
Celeste
Slay the Spire
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Fingerprint
Fourteen dimensions, against everyone
Further out is a stronger lean than other curators.
Read this chart
Each spoke is one dimension; further out means a stronger lean that way than other curators. A big shape is a strong, unusual taste; a small one is close to the middle of everyone.
By medium
How Ruthless Ruth rates each kind of thing
One row a medium; the dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
Read this chart
One bar per star rating, one row per medium. Where the bars pile up is your habit; the dashed line is your average for that medium.
The map
Every curator, placed by taste
The two directions taste varies most along. Archetypes cluster; Ruthless Ruth is ringed, and people they follow are outlined.
Read this chart
Every curator, placed so that people with similar leans sit near each other. The two axes are the directions taste varies most along, found from all profiles. Neighbors are worth a look.
Against the crowd
Where Ruthless Ruth parts ways with the audience
Above the line, kinder than the crowd; below it, harsher.
Read this chart
Each dot is a title: your stars up, the audience's average across. Dots above the line are where you were kinder than the crowd, below it harsher. A wide spread means you do not follow consensus.
Drift
How what Ruthless Ruth loved has moved
Needs ratings across at least two years, with three or more in each.
Year by year, on the four strongest dimensions.
Read this chart
One line per dimension, one point per year: the average character of what you loved that year. A line that climbs means your favorites moved toward that pole.
The numbers
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Archetype, with the runners-up
- The Provocateur100%
In the community
- Harsher than 94% of curators
- Has rated more than 54% of curators
- More bleak than 99% of curators
- 12% of curators are Provocateurs
Among 634 curators with a profile.
Taste profile
How far this curator leans on each dimension compared with everyone else. Strongest eight; the rest below.
All fourteen dimensions
Ratings
Profile built from 65 rated titles.
This month they were chasing intensity and revisiting favorites. From 21 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Logs
watched · 2d
The Thing 1982
★★★★½4.5
Paranoia as a physical substance. Nobody trusts anybody and the film agrees with them. The blood test scene is a perfect short film.
Mostly about the story.
listened · Sep 14
In Rainbows 2007
★★½2.5
finished · Sep 14
Never Let Me Go 2005
★★★3.0
finished · Sep 11
The Secret History 1992
★★★★4.0
watched · Sep 9
Parasite 2019
★★★★½4.5
The funniest film about class until it is not. The peach fuzz scene is a heist. The basement is a thesis.
Mostly about the story.
watched · Sep 8
In the Mood for Love 2000
★★★½3.5
played · Sep 7
Return of the Obra Dinn 2018
★★★½3.5
watched · Sep 1
The Martian 2015
★★½2.5
watched · Sep 1
The Truman Show 1998
★★★3.0
watched · Aug 31
Die Hard 1988
★★½2.5
watched · Aug 30
Aftersun 2022
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 28
Shutter Island 2010
★★★★4.0
finished · Aug 26
The Hobbit 1937
★1.0
watched · Aug 26
Spirited Away 2001
★★2.0
watched · Aug 24
Fleabag 2016
★★★½3.5
listened · Aug 23
Hounds of Love 1985
★★★★4.0
watched · Aug 23
Se7en 1995
★★★★★5.0
watched · Aug 23
Titanic 1997
★½1.5
watched · Aug 21
The Wolf of Wall Street 2013
★★★★½4.5
finished · Aug 20
Pachinko 2017
★★★3.0
finished · Aug 19
Circe 2018
★★½2.5
watched · Aug 13
Hereditary 2018
★★★★★5.0
Toni Collette at the dinner table is the best acting in a horror film this century and the film around her earns it. The last twenty minutes are a slow fall into a very specific hell.
Mostly about the performances.
played · Aug 10
Slay the Spire 2019
★★½2.5
watched · Aug 2
Interstellar 2014
★★½2.5
watched · Jul 30
The Dark Knight 2008
★★★★½4.5
watched · Jul 28
Twin Peaks 1990
★★★★4.0
watched · Jul 28
Sunset Boulevard 1950
★★★★½4.5
watched · Jul 27
The Bear 2022
★★2.0
watched · Jul 7
The Wire 2002
★★★½3.5
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
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