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The Majestic (2001)

★ 6.8 · 826 ratings on TMDB

Sometimes your life comes into focus one frame at a time.

The Majestic poster★ 6.8

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

DirectorFrank Darabont
CastBob Balaban, Brent Briscoe, David Ogden Stiers, Gerry Black, Hal Holbrook, Jeffrey DeMunn
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

The Majestic 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

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

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)E8/E9/E10The Dark Knight Rises (2012)E8/E9/E10Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)E8/E9/E10Django Unchained (2012)E8/E9/E10Titanic (1997)E8/E9/E10Doctor Strange (2016)E8/E9/E10

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, Romance

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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