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Border (2018)
★ 6.7 · 918 ratings on TMDB
Sense something beautiful
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
DirectorAli Abbasi
The emergence reading
In Border, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “border myth”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, otherness, law, identity, fear.
↷ monsters and creaturesSEprejudiceothernesslawidentityfear
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
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