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Top Gun (1986)
★ 7.1 · 9,496 ratings on TMDB
Up there with the best of the best.
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well as personal demons, will threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an ace pilot.
DirectorTony Scott
The emergence reading
Top Gun keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing militarism, competition, technology, love, mortality.
zero-distanceUSmilitarismcompetitiontechnologylovemortality
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Bicentennial Man (1999)E8 · love, mortality
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The Man with Two Brains (1983)E8 · love, mortality
Hello World (2019)E8 · love, mortality
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)E11 · militarism, mortality
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)E8/E11 · militarism, technologySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)E12/E14 · rare rung · mortality, technology
Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)E6/E13 · rare rung · militarism, technology
Them! (1954)E14 · rare rung · militarism, technology
Origin: Spirits of the Past (2006)E12/E13 · rare rung · militarism, technology
