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Ant-Man (2015)

★ 7.1 · 20,804 ratings on TMDB

Heroes don't get any bigger.

Ant-Man poster★ 7.1

Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Doctor Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.

DirectorPeyton Reed
CastAbby Ryder Fortson, Anthony Mackie, Bobby Cannavale, Corey Stoll, David Dastmalchian, Evangeline Lilly
GenresAction, Adventure, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

Ant-Man keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 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.

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Same subject, different rung

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

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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