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The Conformist (1971)
★ 7.6 · 760 ratings on TMDB
A dazzling movie.
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
DirectorBernardo Bertolucci
CastAntonio Maestri, Dominique Sanda, Enzo Tarascio, Fosco Giachetti, Gastone Moschin, Jean-Louis Trintignant
GenresDrama
The emergence reading
The Conformist keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing conformity, authority, ideology, power, prejudice.
zero-distanceITconformityauthorityideologypowerprejudice
Also inFilms about prejudice
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The Wave (2008)E8 · authority, conformity
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)E8/E10 · authority, power
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)E8/E10 · authority, power
The Incredibles (2004)E8/E10 · authority, power
X-Men: First Class (2011)E8/E10 · ideology, power
Antz (1998)E8/E10 · authority, conformitySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · authority, power
Warcraft (2016)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, power
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013)E11/E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, power
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010)E11/E13 · rare rung · authority, power
Wizards (1977)E9/E13 · rare rung · power, prejudice
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)E9/E12 · rare rung · authority, prejudice
