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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

★ 6.1 · 306 ratings on TMDB

A love story.

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In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One night, a new neighbor catches Diane's eye, and the enigmatic man inspires her to set forth on the path to discovering her own artistry.

The emergence reading

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, otherness, love, art, inequality.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.