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Passengers (2016)

★ 7.0 · 14,174 ratings on TMDB

There is a reason they woke up.

Passengers poster★ 7.0

A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.

DirectorMorten Tyldum
CastAndy Garcia, Aurora Perrineau, Chris Pratt, Conor Brophy, Jennifer Lawrence, Julee Cerda
GenresDrama, Romance, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

Passengers 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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