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The Campaign (2012)
★ 5.8 · 1,861 ratings on TMDB
May the best loser win.
Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.
The emergence reading
The Campaign 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 power, corruption, media.
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Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Same people
Shared director or cast.
