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Imitation of Life (1959)

★ 7.5 · 316 ratings on TMDB

Fannie Hurst's best selling novel of today's tormented generation!

Imitation of Life poster★ 7.5

In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.

DirectorDouglas Sirk
CastDan O'Herlihy, John Gavin, John Vivyan, Juanita Moore, Karin Dicker, Lana Turner
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

Imitation of Life keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 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.

Finding Nemo (2003)E8/E9Coco (2017)E8/E9Parasite (2019)E8/E9Back to the Future (1985)E8/E9Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)E8/E9Se7en (1995)E8/E9

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Origin: Spirits of the Past (2006)E12/E13 · Drama, Romance

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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