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Darkman (1990)

★ 6.4 · 1,507 ratings on TMDB

They destroyed everything he had, everything he was. Now, crime has a new enemy and justice has a new face.

Darkman poster★ 6.4

Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.

DirectorSam Raimi
CastColin Friels, Dan Bell, Dan Hicks, Frances McDormand, Jessie Lawrence Ferguson, Larry Drake
GenresAction, Science Fiction, Thriller
The emergence reading

Darkman 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.

Iron Man 2 (2010)E8/E11Iron Man 3 (2013)E8/E11Star Wars (1977)E8/E11The Avengers (2012)E8/E11John Wick (2014)E8/E11Ant-Man (2015)E8/E11

Same subject, different rung

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

Tenet (2020)E0/E14 · Action, Science FictionV for Vendetta (2006)E10/E12 · Action, Science FictionWorld War Z (2013)E4/E14 · Action, Science FictionStarship Troopers (1997)E12/E13 · Action, Science FictionChildren of Men (2006)E12/E14 · Action, Science FictionDistrict B13 (2004)E9/E12 · Action, Science Fiction

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Evil Dead II (1987)dir. Sam RaimiArmy of Darkness (1992)dir. Sam RaimiSpider-Man (2002)dir. Sam RaimiIntruder (1989)Dan HicksWishmaster (1997)Dan HicksBatman Begins (2005)Liam Neeson