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Repo Man (1984)
★ 6.7 · 686 ratings on TMDB
It’s 4 a.m. Do you know where your car is?
A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
DirectorAlex Cox
The emergence reading
Repo Man keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing authority, consumerism, alien, punk, greed.
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Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The Simpsons Movie (2007)E8/E9/E10 · authority, consumerism
Monsters vs Aliens (2009)E8/E9/E10 · alien, authority
Epic Movie (2007)E8/E9/E10 · authority, consumerism
One Piece Film: GOLD (2016)E8/E9/E10 · authority, greed
Fred Claus (2007)E8/E9/E10 · authority, consumerism
North (1994)E8/E9/E10 · authority, consumerismSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
