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Canadian Bacon (1995)
★ 5.8 · 253 ratings on TMDB
It's lonely at the top when there's no butt left to kick.
The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.
DirectorMichael Moore
GenresComedy
The emergence reading
Canadian Bacon keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E12/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, media, nationalism, politics, propaganda.
zero-distanceUSprejudicemedianationalismpoliticspropaganda
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)E12 · rare rung · media, propaganda
The Dictator (2012)E12 · rare rung · politics, prejudice
Vice (2018)E12 · rare rung · media, politicsSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Blade II (2002)E4/E10 · rare rung · politics, prejudice
Don't Look Up (2021)E14 · rare rung · media, politics
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)E13 · rare rung · politics, prejudice
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Network (1976)E8/E10/E11 · media, politics
Batman Returns (1992)E8/E10 · media, prejudice
