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Barbarella (1968)
★ 6.0 · 827 ratings on TMDB
See Barbarella do her thing!
In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
DirectorRoger Vadim
The emergence reading
Barbarella 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 sexuality, power, technology, culture, fantasy.
zero-distanceITsexualitypowertechnologyculturefantasy
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