Resist

The scouts

Martinez's score doing the heavy lifting on what is essentially a philosophy lecture in motion—it's the kind of 'experimental' that plays it safe by hiding behind a name composer and abstract imagery, and everyone nods along because entropy sounds smart.

Hodder positions himself in a precise lineage of essay film and structural cinema, where the Cliff Martinez score functions not as accompaniment but as a philosophical argument in itself, a formal choice that elevates the meditation into something genuinely considered.

The decision to let Martinez's score carry the entire emotional and conceptual weight instead of burying it under image-making creates an unusual vulnerability—it's a risky choice that either transcends the abstraction or disappears into it, depending on whether you're listening.