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Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law (1998)

★ 6.4 · 310 ratings on TMDB
Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law poster★ 6.4

A former policeman enlists his nerdy friend to help bust drug traffickers moving heroin through a Chinese restaurant.

DirectorSantiago Segura
CastCarlos Perea, Chus Lampreave, Darío Paso, Javier Cámara, Jimmy Barnatán, Julio Sanjuán
GenresComedy, Crime
The emergence reading

Torrente: The Dumb Arm of the Law keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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