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Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

★ 7.3 · 1,637 ratings on TMDB

I love you... The way you are.

Leaving Las Vegas poster★ 7.3

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

The emergence reading

Leaving Las Vegas keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

zero-distanceUS

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.