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Falling Down (1993)

★ 7.4 · 4,060 ratings on TMDB

The adventures of an ordinary man at war with the everyday world.

Falling Down poster★ 7.4

An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.

DirectorJoel Schumacher
CastBarbara Hershey, Ebbe Roe Smith, Frederic Forrest, Joey Singer, Lois Smith, Michael Douglas
GenresCrime, Drama, Thriller
The emergence reading

Falling Down keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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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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