Movie Substrate · Film
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
★ 7.2 · 6,251 ratings on TMDB
A world of wonders in one great picture!
On a golden afternoon, wildly curious young Alice tumbles into the burrow and enters the merry, madcap world of Wonderland full of whimsical escapades.
The emergence reading
Alice in Wonderland keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, authority, otherness, power.
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Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)E8/E9/E10 · authority, identity
Thor (2011)E8/E9/E10 · authority, identity
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)E8/E9/E10 · authority, identity
The Lion King (1994)E8/E9/E10 · authority, identity
The Golden Compass (2007)E8/E9/E10 · authority, identitySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · authority, power
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)E13/E14 · rare rung · identity, otherness
Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (2010)E6/E11 · rare rung · identity, power
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013)E11/E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, power
Warcraft (2016)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, power
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, otherness
