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Free Fire (2017)

★ 6.3 · 1,213 ratings on TMDB

All guns. No control.

Free Fire poster★ 6.3

Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shoot-out and a game of survival.

DirectorBen Wheatley
CastArmie Hammer, Babou Ceesay, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Enzo Cilenti, Jack Reynor
GenresAction, Crime, Mystery
The emergence reading

Free Fire 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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