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Queer (2024)
★ 6.6 · 513 ratings on TMDB
I'm not Queer, I'm disembodied.
In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.
DirectorLuca Guadagnino
The emergence reading
Queer keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, otherness, memory, love, consciousness.
zero-distanceUSidentityothernessmemoryloveconsciousness
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E8telepathytelepathy and bodily merging become possible through ayahuasca (cognition · personal)
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.
Solaris (1972)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Her (2013)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Solaris (2002)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Anomalisa (2015)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Nirvana (1997)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
