Movie Substrate · Film
Firestarter (1984)
★ 6.3 · 762 ratings on TMDB
She has the power to set objects on fire with just one glance!
Charlene "Charlie" McGee has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the threatening government agency which wants to destroy her?
DirectorMark L. Lester
The emergence reading
Firestarter keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E8pyrokinesishumans can generate and control fire with their mind (cognition · 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.
World War Z (2013)E4/E14 · Horror, Science Fiction
28 Weeks Later (2007)E4/E12/E14 · Horror, Science Fiction
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)E13/E14 · Horror, Science Fiction
Seoul Station (2016)E4/E9/E10 · Horror, Science Fiction
V for Vendetta (2006)E10/E12 · Science Fiction, Thriller
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)E12/E14 · Science Fiction, ThrillerAlso 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.
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Avatar (2009)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Inception (2010)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Inside Out (2015)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Get Out (2017)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
