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Shadowlands (1993)

★ 6.9 · 306 ratings on TMDB

He distanced himself from love as he distanced himself from pain, until one woman got close enough to open his heart to the world.

Shadowlands poster★ 6.9

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.

DirectorRichard Attenborough
CastAnthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Edward Hardwicke, John Wood, Julian Fellowes, Julian Firth
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

Shadowlands 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.

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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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