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The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
★ 7.0 · 4,415 ratings on TMDB
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.
DirectorYorgos Lanthimos
The emergence reading
The Killing of a Sacred Deer keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing justice, authority, family, mortality, tradition.
zero-distanceIEjusticeauthorityfamilymortalitytradition
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: rigorous
E10lawa binding supernatural law forces a family to suffer unless one member is killed (social · local)