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Shadows and Fog (1991)

★ 6.7 · 403 ratings on TMDB

A delicate comedy-mystery in true Allen fashion.

Shadows and Fog poster★ 6.7

With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

DirectorWoody Allen
CastAnne Lange, Jodie Foster, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Kathy Bates, Kenneth Mars
GenresComedy, Crime, Mystery
The emergence reading

Shadows and Fog 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

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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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