The Founder (2016)
He took someone else's idea and America ate it up.
The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
The Founder keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing consumerism, exploitation, power, corruption, inequality.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)E8/E10/E11 · exploitation, inequality
The Lorax (2012)E8/E10 · consumerism, exploitation
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)E8/E11 · consumerism, corruption
The Laundromat (2019)E10/E11 · corruption, inequality
Meet the Feebles (1989)E8/E10 · corruption, exploitation
The Ferpect Crime (2004)E8/E10 · consumerism, exploitationSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
