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Shrapnel (2023)

★ 5.6 · 75 ratings on TMDB

They're going to war for his daughter.

Shrapnel poster★ 5.6

A former Marine and his old war buddy face off against the Mexican cartel behind the disappearance of his daughter.

DirectorWilliam Kaufman
CastCam Gigandet, David DeLao, Emily Perry, Guillermo Iván, Jason Patric, Jesus Banuelos
GenresAction, Drama, Thriller
The emergence reading

Shrapnel 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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