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Days of Heaven (1978)

★ 7.5 · 1,168 ratings on TMDB

She gave her hand to one man, but her heart to another.

Days of Heaven poster★ 7.5

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

DirectorTerrence Malick
CastBrooke Adams, Doug Kershaw, Gene Bell, Jackie Shultis, Linda Manz, Richard Gere
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

Days of Heaven 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.

Origin: Spirits of the Past (2006)E12/E13 · Drama, Romance

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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