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The Conspirator (2011)

★ 6.6 · 495 ratings on TMDB

One bullet killed the President. But not one man.

The Conspirator poster★ 6.6

Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.

DirectorRobert Redford
CastAlexis Bledel, Colm Meaney, Danny Huston, Evan Rachel Wood, James McAvoy, Justin Long
GenresCrime, Drama, History
The emergence reading

The Conspirator 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 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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