Movie Substrate · Film
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
★ 7.1 · 267 ratings on TMDB
The Hell of Home.
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.
DirectorPedro Almodóvar
The emergence reading
What Have I Done to Deserve This? keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 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.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
