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Dirty Harry (1971)

★ 7.4 · 2,719 ratings on TMDB

Detective Harry Callahan. He doesn't break murder cases. He smashes them.

Dirty Harry poster★ 7.4

When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath.

DirectorDon Siegel
CastAndrew Robinson, Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, John Larch, John Mitchum, John Vernon
GenresAction, Crime, Thriller
The emergence reading

Dirty Harry keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 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.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)E8/E10Shutter Island (2010)E8/E10Suicide Squad (2016)E8/E10The Shawshank Redemption (1994)E8/E10The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)E8/E10Captain America: Civil War (2016)E8/E10

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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