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The Guardian (2006)

★ 7.1 · 1,659 ratings on TMDB

How do you decide who lives or who dies?

The Guardian poster★ 7.1

A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's 'A' School, where legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice.

DirectorAndrew Davis
CastAshton Kutcher, Benny Ciaramello, Bryce Cass, Clancy Brown, Dulé Hill, Kevin Costner
GenresAction, Adventure, Drama
The emergence reading

The Guardian keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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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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