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Heavenly Creatures (1994)

★ 7.0 · 1,029 ratings on TMDB

Not all angels are innocent.

Heavenly Creatures poster★ 7.0

Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. This friendship gradually develops into an intense and obsessive bond.

DirectorPeter Jackson
CastClive Merrison, Diana Kent, Geoffrey Heath, Gilbert Goldie, Jed Brophy, Kate Winslet
GenresDrama, Fantasy
The emergence reading

Heavenly Creatures keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)E8/E9Se7en (1995)E8/E9Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)E8/E9Parasite (2019)E8/E9Finding Nemo (2003)E8/E9Back to the Future (1985)E8/E9

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Origin: Spirits of the Past (2006)E12/E13 · Drama, Fantasy

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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