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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
★ 7.2 · 459 ratings on TMDB
Best of enemies. Deadliest of friends.
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
DirectorSam Peckinpah
The emergence reading
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
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Same rung, same subject
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Same subject, different rung
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