Movie Substrate · Film
Pay It Forward (2000)
★ 7.4 · 1,986 ratings on TMDB
When someone does you a big favor, don't pay it back...
Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
DirectorMimi Leder
GenresDrama
The emergence reading
Pay It Forward keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E9altruismfavor must be passed to three others instead of repaid to the giver (forward‑giving rule) (social · universal)
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