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Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom (2023)

★ 4.8 · 1,167 ratings on TMDB
Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom poster★ 4.8

Gallic heroes and forever friends Asterix and Obelix journey to China to help Princess Sa See save the Empress and her land from a nefarious prince.

DirectorGuillaume Canet
CastGilles Lellouche, Guillaume Canet, Jonathan Cohen, José Garcia, Julie Chen, Leanna Chea
GenresAdventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The emergence reading

Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E12/E13 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing imperialism, culture, heroism, comedy.

zero-distanceFRimperialismcultureheroismcomedy
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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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