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Super (2010)

★ 6.5 · 1,724 ratings on TMDB

Shut up, crime!

Super poster★ 6.5

After his wife falls under the influence of a drug dealer, an everyday guy transforms himself into Crimson Bolt, a superhero with the best intentions, though he lacks for heroic skills.

DirectorJames Gunn
CastAndre Royo, Elliot Page, Gregg Henry, Kevin Bacon, Linda Cardellini, Liv Tyler
GenresAction, Comedy, Drama
The emergence reading

Super keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing faith, violence, media, justice, identity.

zero-distanceUSfaithviolencemediajusticeidentity
Also inFilms about justiceFilms about faithFilms about identity
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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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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