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Cars (2006)

★ 7.0 · 15,044 ratings on TMDB

Ahhh... it's got that new movie smell.

Cars poster★ 7.0

Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. On route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in California to compete against two seasoned pros, McQueen gets to know the town's offbeat characters.

The emergence reading

In Cars, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “car metropolis”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, identity, obsolescence, community, competition.

↷ machinesUSprejudiceidentityobsolescencecommunitycompetition

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.