Movie Substrate · Film
Replicant (2001)
★ 5.8 · 519 ratings on TMDB
A ruthless killer... to destroy him, they had to create him.
Scientists create a genetic clone of a serial killer in order to help catch the killer, teaming up with two cops.
DirectorRingo Lam Ling-Tung
The emergence reading
Replicant keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E4memoryDNA encodes full personal memories, enabling clones to inherit them (biology · 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.
World War Z (2013)E4/E14 · Action, Science Fiction
V for Vendetta (2006)E10/E12 · Action, Science Fiction
Tenet (2020)E0/E14 · Action, Science Fiction
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)E11/E12/E14 · Action, Science Fiction
Starship Troopers (1997)E12/E13 · Action, Science Fiction
Children of Men (2006)E12/E14 · Action, Science FictionAlso 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.
Logan (2017)alters at E4 · same rung · rigorous
Jurassic World (2015)alters at E4 · same rung · loose
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)alters at E4 · same rung · loose
Annihilation (2018)alters at E4 · same rung · loose
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)alters at E4 · same rung · loose
Jurassic Park (1993)alters at E4 · same rung · loose
