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Thunderstruck (2012)
★ 6.1 · 248 ratings on TMDB
NBA superstar Kevin Durant has got game. His biggest fan has none. Things are about to switch!
After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.
DirectorJohn Whitesell
The emergence reading
Thunderstruck 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
E8skillskill becomes transferable between individuals via a magical basketball (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.
Also bends a rule of reality
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Inside Out (2015)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Inception (2010)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Avatar (2009)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Get Out (2017)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
A Clockwork Orange (1971)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
