Top Secret! (1984)
Don't tell anyone.
Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.
Top Secret! keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing politics, espionage, propaganda, satire.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)E8/E12 · rare rung · espionage, politics
Postal (2007)E8/E12 · rare rung · politics, satire
Iron Sky (2012)E12 · rare rung · politics, satire
Canadian Bacon (1995)E12 · rare rung · politics, propaganda
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)E8/E12 · rare rung · propaganda
The Dictator (2012)E8/E12 · rare rung · politicsSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
