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Dick Tracy (1990)
★ 6.2 · 1,037 ratings on TMDB
Their turf. Their game. Their rules. They didn't count on HIS law...
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
DirectorWarren Beatty
The emergence reading
Dick Tracy keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing crime, corruption, justice.
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)E8/E11 · corruption, crimeSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
