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Hard Boiled (1992)
★ 7.5 · 936 ratings on TMDB
As a cop, he has brains, brawn, and an instinct to kill.
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.
DirectorJohn Woo
The emergence reading
Hard Boiled keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceHK
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Same people
Shared director or cast.
