Movie Substrate · Film
Year One (2009)
★ 5.0 · 2,015 ratings on TMDB
Meet your ancestors.
When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.
DirectorHarold Ramis
The emergence reading
Year One 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 faith, power, culture, exploitation.
zero-distanceUSfaithpowercultureexploitation
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