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The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
★ 4.4 · 543 ratings on TMDB
The MAN on the Moon.
The year is 2087, the setting is the moon. Pluto Nash, the high-flying successful owner of the hottest nightclub in the universe, finds himself in trouble when he refuses to sell his club to lunar gangster Mogan, who just happens to be helping the mysterious Rex Crater mastermind a plan to take over the entire moon.
DirectorRon Underwood
The emergence reading
The Adventures of Pluto Nash keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, technology, identity, corruption, exploitation.
zero-distanceUSpowertechnologyidentitycorruptionexploitation
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