Movie Substrate · Film
State and Main (2000)
★ 6.3 · 299 ratings on TMDB
Lock your windows. Hide your daughters. Say your prayers.
The residents of a small Vermont town don't know what hit them when a beleaguered Hollywood film crew brings a chaotic shoot to their quaint village.
DirectorDavid Mamet
The emergence reading
State and Main keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
