Jackpot! (2024)
Take the money and run.
In the near future, a 'Grand Lottery' has been established - the catch: kill the winner before sundown to legally claim their multi-billion dollar jackpot. When Katie Kim mistakenly finds herself with the winning ticket, she reluctantly joins forces with amateur lottery protection agent Noel Cassidy who must get her to sundown in exchange for a piece of her prize.
Jackpot! keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing inequality, exploitation, survival, media.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Knives Out (2019)E8/E10 · exploitation, inequality
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)E8/E10 · exploitation, media
The Founder (2016)E8/E10 · exploitation, inequality
Alien: Romulus (2024)E8/E10 · exploitation, survival
Space Sweepers (2021)E8/E10 · exploitation, survival
Dogville (2003)E8/E10 · exploitation, inequalitySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
King Kong Lives (1986)E6/E11 · rare rung · exploitation, survival
Don't Look Up (2021)E14 · rare rung · inequality, media
War, Inc. (2008)E12/E13 · rare rung · exploitation, media
Office Christmas Party (2016)E9/E11 · exploitation, inequality
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023)E9/E11 · exploitation, survivalAlso 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.
Self Reliance (2024)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
The Hunger Games (2012)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
Death Race (2008)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
The Bad Batch (2017)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
