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Across the Universe (2007)

★ 7.1 · 1,436 ratings on TMDB

All you need is love.

Across the Universe poster★ 7.1

When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who joins the growing anti-war movement. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.

The emergence reading

Across the Universe keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing love, protest, war, identity, class.

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Same subject, different rung

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