Spoilers ahead: for the puzzle and the movies/games
This page reveals all categories and answers for this puzzle. It also discusses plot details, story endings, and other spoilers for some of the movies/games shown.
easy
Libraries, bookshops, and forbidden reading
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Books and reading spaces become sources of danger, escape, control, or power, depending on who is allowed to open them.
medium
Road races and illegal street contests
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The story runs on outlaw racing, cross-country contests, or street-driving bravado where the rules are mostly decorative.
hard
Time capsules and buried pasts come back up
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Something preserved, hidden, buried, or sealed away returns to make the present answer for an earlier moment.
tricky
One character, multiple performers
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The trick is not casting trivia. The character gets split apart on purpose, and the movie asks the audience to accept the fracture.