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Wanderlust (2012)

★ 5.5 · 1,327 ratings on TMDB

Leave your baggage behind

Wanderlust poster★ 5.5

Rattled by sudden unemployment, a Manhattan couple surveys alternative living options, ultimately deciding to experiment with living on a rural commune where free love rules.

DirectorDavid Wain
CastAlan Alda, Jennifer Aniston, Joe Lo Truglio, Jordan Peele, Justin Theroux, Kathryn Hahn
GenresComedy, Romance
The emergence reading

Wanderlust keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/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.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)E8/E9/E10The Dark Knight (2008)E8/E9/E10Titanic (1997)E8/E9/E10Thor (2011)E8/E9/E10Django Unchained (2012)E8/E9/E10Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)E8/E9/E10

Same subject, different rung

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

Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (2008)E13/E14 · Comedy, Romance

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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