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The Merchant of Venice (2004)

★ 6.8 · 608 ratings on TMDB
The Merchant of Venice poster★ 6.8

Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and ask him for a loan.

DirectorMichael Radford
CastAl Pacino, Charlie Cox, Heather Goldenhersh, Jeremy Irons, John Sessions, Joseph Fiennes
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

The Merchant of Venice 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

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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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