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Batman: Year One (2011)

★ 7.2 · 1,042 ratings on TMDB

A merciless crime turns a man into an outlaw.

Batman: Year One poster★ 7.2

A wealthy playboy named Bruce Wayne and a Chicago cop named Jim Gordon both return to Gotham City where their lives unexpectedly intersect.

DirectorLauren Montgomery, Sam Liu
CastAlex Rocco, Ben McKenzie, Bryan Cranston, Eliza Dushku, Jeff Bennett, Jon Polito
GenresAction, Animation, Crime, Drama
The emergence reading

Batman: Year One 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 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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