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The Last Starfighter (1984)
★ 6.6 · 756 ratings on TMDB
Alex Rogan was a small town boy with big dreams. But in his wildest dreams, he never suspected that tonight he would become The Last Starfighter.
Video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering the video game The Last Starfighter, only to find out it was just a test. He was recruited to join the team of best Starfighters to defend their world from the attack.
DirectorNick Castle
The emergence reading
In The Last Starfighter, consciousness is carried by aliens. The story fights on E8/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
↷ aliensUS
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.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
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