Movie Substrate · Film
The Omega Man (1971)
★ 6.2 · 625 ratings on TMDB
The last man alive...is not alone!
Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain; sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.
DirectorBoris Sagal
The emergence reading
The Omega Man 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: rigorous
E6diseaseglobal pandemic that kills most humans, mutates survivors into nocturnal albino mutants, and leaves a few immune (biology · universal)
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
Tenet (2020)E0/E14 · Action, Science Fiction
V for Vendetta (2006)E10/E12 · Action, Science Fiction
White House Down (2013)E10/E11 · Action, Drama
Children of Men (2006)E12/E14 · Action, Science Fiction
Starship Troopers (1997)E12/E13 · Action, Science FictionAlso bends a rule of reality
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X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Blade Runner (1982)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Shaun of the Dead (2004)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Beetlejuice (1988)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Elysium (2013)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
