
The charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference, where he is an unwanted presence. Snaporaz soon discovers he’s entered a phantasmagoric world where women have taken power.
City of Women keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing gender, prejudice, identity, power, freedom.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Blade II (2002)E4/E10 · rare rung · power, prejudice
Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · power, prejudice
Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (2010)E6/E11 · rare rung · identity, power
Warcraft (2016)E12/E13 · rare rung · power, prejudice
Return to Oz (1985)E10/E13 · rare rung · identity, power
X-Men: The Mutant Watch (2000)E11/E12 · rare rung · identity, power