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Alfie (2004)

★ 5.9 · 874 ratings on TMDB

Meet a man who never met a woman he didn't love.

Alfie poster★ 5.9

A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.

DirectorCharles Shyer
CastJane Krakowski, Jeff Harding, Jude Law, Kevin Rahm, Marisa Tomei, Nia Long
GenresComedy, Drama, Romance
The emergence reading

Alfie keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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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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