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Beirut (2018)
★ 6.3 · 602 ratings on TMDB
Beirut, 1982: The Paris of the Middle East Was Burning
In 1980s Beirut, Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a colleague from the group that is possibly responsible for his own family's death. Meanwhile, a CIA field agent who is working under cover at the American embassy is tasked with keeping Mason alive and ensuring that the mission is a success.
DirectorBrad Anderson
The emergence reading
Beirut keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E12 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.
