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Nobody's Fool (1994)
★ 6.9 · 341 ratings on TMDB
In a town where nothing ever happens... everything is about to happen to Sully.
A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young wife. As his estranged son returns, he faces new family responsibilities, while a banker plots to evict him from his home.
DirectorRobert Benton
The emergence reading
Nobody's Fool 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
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Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
