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Faces in the Crowd (2011)

★ 6.1 · 530 ratings on TMDB

She saw the killer's face, but it keeps changing...

Faces in the Crowd poster★ 6.1

Anna is living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.

DirectorJulien Magnat
CastApollonia Vanova, David Atrakchi, David Ingram, Julian McMahon, Kate Yacula, Marianne Faithfull
GenresCrime, Thriller
The emergence reading

Faces in the Crowd keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing media, celebrity, power, manipulation, politics.

zero-distanceCAmediacelebritypowermanipulationpolitics
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Same rung, same subject

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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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