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Machete (2010)

★ 6.3 · 3,534 ratings on TMDB

They just messed with the wrong Mexican.

Machete poster★ 6.3

After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.

DirectorEthan Maniquis, Robert Rodriguez
CastCheech Marin, Danny Trejo, Electra Avellan, Elise Avellan, Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan
GenresAction, Comedy, Thriller
The emergence reading

Machete keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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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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