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Red Dragon (2002)

★ 7.0 · 4,704 ratings on TMDB

To understand the origin of evil, you must go back to the beginning.

Red Dragon poster★ 7.0

Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.

DirectorBrett Ratner
CastAnthony Heald, Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Emily Watson, Harvey Keitel, Ken Leung
GenresCrime, Horror, Thriller
The emergence reading

Red Dragon keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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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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