Kinship and Rhymes With

Think of each film as a landscape, with peaks and valleys across its readings. Two films are close when their landscapes rise and fall in the same places. Closeness is the shape, not the height. A film that sits a little high on everything is not close to every other film for that reason: each film is first set against its own level, so "everything is a bit high" does not look like kinship. The far side is the reverse, a film whose landscape falls where another rises. Closeness comes in phrases: very close, close, rhymes, the far side. There is no figure, because a figure beside a film reads as a grade, and a phrase cannot be mistaken for one in a screenshot.

Closeness is judged across all the readings at once, never on one. Each film is compared after its own general level has been set aside, so what is compared is where a film rises and falls against itself. Two things follow. A broadly intense film is not close to every intense film. And two films can be close while sharing no genre, country or decade, because the comparison never looks at those. In a search, only the readings your words touched take part; the rest are named as not asked. The phrases are coarser than the truth on purpose. Closeness says nothing about quality, and nothing about what other people watched or liked.