Primal

Name: Primal
Director: Unknown
Genre: Romance, Drama
Released: 2020-09-01
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 6.5

Sep 1, 2020 1h 25mRomanceDrama

10.0IMDb

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A scattered college kid, Arlo, and his frat-bro roommate, Blake, try to navigate their hyper-masculine tendencies and their aggression boils over when they end up competing for the same girl.

Signature: Drama · Craft · Tension

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Nutevio DNA

How Primal actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve core traits Nutevio tracks across every film and series.

Signature profile

Primal reads strongest on Emotion, Romance and Craft.

EmotionPresent6.8

How much it is designed to move you.

RomancePresent6.7

How central love and intimacy are to the story.

CraftPresent6.2

Filmmaking quality — direction, writing and recognition.

TensionPresent5.0

The sustained pressure it keeps you under.

DarknessPresent5.0

How bleak the tone and subject matter run.

HumourPresent5.0

How often it is genuinely funny, by design.

ActionPresent5.0

Physical momentum — chases, combat, set pieces.

MysteryPresent5.0

How much of the story is withheld and unravelled.

ComplexityPresent5.0

How much attention the structure and ideas demand.

WonderPresent5.0

Scale, imagination and the sense of the extraordinary.

FearPresent5.0

How much it is built to unsettle or frighten.

PaceLight4.9

How quickly the story moves scene to scene.

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A scattered college kid, Arlo, and his frat-bro roommate, Blake, try to navigate their hyper-masculine tendencies and their aggression boils over when they end up competing for the same girl.

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