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Carol (2015)

★ 7.5 · 3,940 ratings on TMDB

Some people change your life forever.

Carol poster★ 7.5

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

DirectorTodd Haynes
CastCarrie Brownstein, Cate Blanchett, Cory Michael Smith, Jake Lacy, John Magaro, Kevin Crowley
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

Carol keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/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.

Thor (2011)E8/E9/E10The Dark Knight (2008)E8/E9/E10Django Unchained (2012)E8/E9/E10Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)E8/E9/E10The Dark Knight Rises (2012)E8/E9/E10Titanic (1997)E8/E9/E10

Same subject, different rung

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

Origin: Spirits of the Past (2006)E12/E13 · Drama, Romance

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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