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The Naked Gun (2025)
★ 6.4 · 1,670 ratings on TMDB
The law's reach never stretched this far.
Only one man has the particular set of skills... to lead Police Squad and save the world: Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. Following in his father's footsteps, he must solve a murder case to prevent Police Squad from closure.
DirectorAkiva Schaffer
The emergence reading
The Naked Gun keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E8intelligencehumans' intelligence is reduced to a primitive level, stripping higher cognition and moral reasoning (technology · local)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Avatar (2009)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Inception (2010)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Inside Out (2015)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Arrival (2016)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Soul (2020)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
