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Safe (2012)

★ 6.5 · 2,665 ratings on TMDB

She has the code. He is the key.

Safe poster★ 6.5

After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York City politicians and police.

DirectorBoaz Yakin
CastAnson Mount, Catherine Chan, Chris Sarandon, Elissa Middleton, Igor Jijikine, James Hong
GenresAction, Crime, Thriller
The emergence reading

Safe keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 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.

Star Wars (1977)E8/E11John Wick (2014)E8/E11Pulp Fiction (1994)E8/E11Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)E8/E11The Godfather (1972)E8/E11The Truman Show (1998)E8/E11

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

V for Vendetta (2006)E10/E12 · Action, ThrillerTenet (2020)E0/E14 · Action, ThrillerWorld War Z (2013)E4/E14 · Action, ThrillerThe Purge: Election Year (2016)E12 · Action, ThrillerThe Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)E9/E10 · Crime, ThrillerBlade II (2002)E4/E10 · Action, Thriller

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Uptown Girls (2003)dir. Boaz YakinRemember the Titans (2000)dir. Boaz YakinMax (2015)dir. Boaz YakinIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)Igor JijikineSnatch (2000)Jason StathamKung Fu Panda (2008)James Hong