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Donnie Brasco (1997)
★ 7.5 · 4,833 ratings on TMDB
In 1978, the US government waged a war against organized crime. One man was left behind the lines.
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
DirectorMike Newell
The emergence reading
Donnie Brasco keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Same people
Shared director or cast.
