Interstellar 2014
★★½2.5
Bud · The Provocateur
V. Volkov
@viktor_v · 40 logs · 6 followers · 7 following
Provocateur · open · bleak · demanding
Demo account. Horror, body horror, and the films that make you look away. If it is comfortable it is not doing its job.
Archetype
The Provocateur
Suspicious of comfort. With a streak of The Ironist.
12% of Buds. 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 spicy take: harsher than the crowd on beloved warmth, kinder to the punishing and the strange.
Open to the unusual
In three lines
- They like endings left open to interpretation. More than almost anyone here.resolvedopen-ended 68%
- They are drawn to dark, heavy stories. More than almost anyone here.warmbleak 66%
- They like work that takes some effort. More than almost anyone here.effortlessdemanding 66%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
Badges
All 25- Omnivore · GoldMaxed
- Shelved · Silver20 of 25
- Time traveler · Silver9 of 12
- First entry · BronzeMaxed
- On a streak · Bronze43 of 60
- Opinionated · Bronze45 of 100
- In good company7 of 10
- Worth following6 of 10
Favorites
The five this Bud would hand you first, in no particular order.
Films
The Thing
Hereditary
Parasite
The Dark Knight
Fight Club
Television
BEEF
Succession
Breaking Bad
The Wire
The Bear
Books
Blood Meridian
The Left Hand of Darkness
Project Hail Mary
Albums
Make a playlist- good kid, m.A.A.d city
- To Pimp a Butterfly
- Punisher
- Blue
Games
Dark Souls
Elden Ring
Disco Elysium
The numbers
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Archetype, with the runners-up
- The Provocateur100%
In the community
- Harsher than 93% of Buds
- Has rated more than 47% of Buds
- More open than 99% of Buds
- 12% of curators are Provocateurs
Among 645 curators with a profile.
Taste profile
How far this Bud leans on each dimension compared with everyone else. Strongest eight; the rest below.
All fourteen dimensions
Ratings
Profile built from 55 rated titles.
This month they were trying a medium you rarely log and chasing intensity. From 14 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Logs
The Truman Show 1998
★★½2.5
Pulp Fiction 1994
★★★3.0
Before Sunrise 1995
★★★3.0
Illmatic 1994
★★★3.0
Disco Elysium 2019
★★★½3.5
Hereditary 2018
★★★★★5.0
A film about grief that becomes a film about inheritance and never lets you choose which. The dinner scene is horror without a single effect.
Mostly about the story.
Ted Lasso 2020
½0.5
Lemonade 2016
★★2.0
Sunset Boulevard 1950
★★★★4.0
The Godfather 1972
★★★3.0
Fight Club 1999
★★★★4.0
Punisher 2020
★★★3.0
Casablanca 1943
★★★½3.5
Die Hard 1988
★★★3.0
The Thing 1982
★★★★★5.0
The best practical effects ever put on film, and they are not the point. The point is the room, and who is looking at whom. Carpenter's masterpiece.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
Breaking Bad 2008
★★★★4.0
Succession 2018
★★★★4.0
Se7en 1995
★★★★4.0
The Wire 2002
★★★3.0
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
★★★½3.5
Blood Meridian 1985
★★★½3.5
The scalp-hunters ride and the judge dances and there is no moral and that is the moral. The most beautiful prose ever wrapped around the worst things.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
Parasite 2019
★★★★½4.5
Elden Ring 2022
★★★½3.5
Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
★★★½3.5
Inception 2010
★★★3.0
Forrest Gump 1994
★½1.5
Titanic 1997
★★2.0
The Bear 2022
★★½2.5
John Wick 2014
★★★3.0
Shutter Island 2010
★★★★4.0
I gave it four stars. I have no explanation. Do not ask.
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
watchlist
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