Movie Substrate · Film
The Prestige (2006)
★ 8.2 · 17,499 ratings on TMDB
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A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
DirectorChristopher Nolan
The emergence reading
The Prestige keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceGB
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E1duplicationteleportation produces a full duplicate of the subject while the original remains alive (physics · 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.
Don't Look Up (2021)E14 · Drama, Science Fiction
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)E6/E11 · Drama, Science Fiction
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)E12/E13 · Drama, Science Fiction
Contagion (2011)E4/E14 · Drama, Science Fiction
Sahara (2005)E14 · Drama, Mystery
WarGames (1983)E12/E14 · Drama, 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.
Bruce Almighty (2003)alters at E1 · same rung · loose
Monsters University (2013)alters at E1 · same rung · loose
Monsters, Inc. (2001)alters at E1 · same rung · rigorous
2012 (2009)alters at E1 · same rung · loose
Ghostbusters (2016)alters at E1 · same rung · loose
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)alters at E1 · same rung · loose
