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The Nice Guys (2016)

★ 7.1 · 8,603 ratings on TMDB

They're not that nice.

The Nice Guys poster★ 7.1

A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.

DirectorShane Black
CastAngourie Rice, Beau Knapp, Keith David, Lois Smith, Margaret Qualley, Matt Bomer
GenresAction, Comedy, Crime
The emergence reading

The Nice Guys keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 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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