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Elvis (2022)

★ 7.5 · 3,860 ratings on TMDB

The Man. The Legend. The King of Rock & Roll.

Elvis poster★ 7.5

The life story of Elvis Presley as seen through the complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

DirectorBaz Luhrmann
CastAustin Butler, Dacre Montgomery, David Wenham, Helen Thomson, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Kodi Smit-McPhee
GenresDrama, History, Music
The emergence reading

Elvis 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.

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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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