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White Men Can't Jump (1992)
★ 6.6 · 1,514 ratings on TMDB
It ain't easy being this good.
Two street basketball hustlers try to con each other, then team up for a bigger score.
DirectorRon Shelton
The emergence reading
White Men Can't Jump keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
