Movie Substrate · Film
Blast from the Past (1999)
★ 6.8 · 1,210 ratings on TMDB
She'd never met anyone like him. He's never met anyone... Period.
Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself.
DirectorHugh Wilson
The emergence reading
Blast from the Past 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: loose
E0timethe shelter's lock enforces a 35‑year period during which the door cannot be opened (technology · local)
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.
Also 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.
Interstellar (2014)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Doctor Strange (2016)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
The Matrix (1999)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Back to the Future (1985)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Avengers: Endgame (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
