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Borderlands (2024)

★ 5.6 · 1,471 ratings on TMDB

Chaos loves company.

Borderlands poster★ 5.6

Returning to her home planet, an infamous bounty hunter forms an unexpected alliance with a team of unlikely heroes. Together, they battle monsters and dangerous bandits to protect a young girl who holds the key to unimaginable power.

DirectorEli Roth
CastAriana Greenblatt, Benjamin Byron Davis, Cate Blanchett, Edgar Ramírez, Florian Munteanu, Jack Black
GenresAction, Comedy, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

Borderlands 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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