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Signs (2002)

★ 6.7 · 6,229 ratings on TMDB

It's not like they didn't warn us.

Signs poster★ 6.7

A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.

DirectorM. Night Shyamalan
CastAbigail Breslin, Cherry Jones, Joaquin Phoenix, Lanny Flaherty, M. Night Shyamalan, Mel Gibson
GenresHorror, Science Fiction, Thriller
The emergence reading

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