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The Specialist (1994)
★ 5.9 · 1,428 ratings on TMDB
The government taught him to kill. Now he's using his skills to help a woman seek revenge against the Miami underworld.
May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert, to kill her parents' killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of Quick's, is assigned to protect one of Quick's potential victims, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.
DirectorLuis Llosa
The emergence reading
The Specialist keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
Same rung, same subject
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Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
