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Speed (1994)

★ 7.2 · 6,801 ratings on TMDB

Get ready for rush hour.

Speed poster★ 7.2

Tensions run high when a crazed bomber rigs a Los Angeles bus with a device that will kill everyone on board if the vehicle's speed dips below fifty miles per hour.

DirectorJan de Bont
CastAlan Ruck, Beth Grant, Dennis Hopper, Glenn Plummer, Hawthorne James, Jeff Daniels
GenresAction, Thriller
The emergence reading

Speed keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 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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