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Winter's Bone (2010)

★ 6.8 · 1,981 ratings on TMDB

Talking just causes witnesses.

Winter's Bone poster★ 6.8

After discovering her father put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared, 17-year-old Ree Dolly must confront the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness in order to to track down her father and save her family.

DirectorDebra Granik
CastAshlee Thompson, Dale Dickey, Garret Dillahunt, Isaiah Stone, Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes
GenresDrama, Mystery
The emergence reading

Winter's Bone keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/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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