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Cry-Baby (1990)

★ 6.5 · 1,564 ratings on TMDB

Good girls want him bad. Bad girls want him worse.

Cry-Baby poster★ 6.5

A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.

DirectorJohn Waters
CastAmy Locane, Darren E. Burrows, Iggy Pop, Johnny Depp, Kim McGuire, Polly Bergen
GenresComedy, Romance
The emergence reading

Cry-Baby keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, identity, rebellion.

zero-distanceUSprejudiceidentityrebellion
Also inFilms about prejudiceFilms about identity
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Same rung, same subject

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

Insurgent (2015)E8/E9 · identity, prejudiceNimona (2023)E8/E9 · identity, prejudiceX-Men (2000)E9 · identity, prejudiceHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)E8/E9 · identity, prejudiceBlack Panther (2018)E8/E9 · identity, prejudiceHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)E8/E9 · prejudice, rebellion

Same subject, different rung

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

Æon Flux (2005)E4/E11 · rare rung · identity, rebellionX-Men: The Mutant Watch (2000)E11/E12 · rare rung · identity, prejudice

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Serial Mom (1994)dir. John WatersHairspray (1988)dir. John WatersA Dirty Shame (2004)dir. John WatersDead Man (1995)Iggy PopPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)Johnny DeppPirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)Johnny Depp