Movie Substrate · Film
Godsend (2004)
★ 4.9 · 528 ratings on TMDB
When a miracle becomes a nightmare, evil is born.
A couple agree to have their deceased son cloned under the supervision of an enigmatic doctor, but bizarre things start to happen years after his rebirth.
DirectorNick Hamm
The emergence reading
Godsend keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceCA
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6cloninghuman cloning is possible and used to replace a dead child (technology · 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.
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I Am Legend (2007)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
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