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Miami Vice (2006)

★ 6.0 · 1,949 ratings on TMDB

No Law. No Rules. No Order.

Miami Vice poster★ 6.0

A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.

DirectorMichael Mann
CastBarry Shabaka Henley, Ciarán Hinds, Colin Farrell, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Gong Li, Jamie Foxx
GenresAction, Crime, Thriller
The emergence reading

Miami Vice 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.

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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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