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The Meg (2018)

★ 6.2 · 8,160 ratings on TMDB

Pleased to eat you.

The Meg poster★ 6.2

A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.

DirectorJon Turteltaub
CastCliff Curtis, Jason Statham, Jessica McNamee, Li Bingbing, Masi Oka, Page Kennedy
GenresAction, Horror, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

The Meg keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E6 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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