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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
★ 6.4 · 1,584 ratings on TMDB
In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she reclaims God's diminished kingdom, this courageous young woman has various amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.
DirectorLuc Besson
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
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Same rung, same subject
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Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
