Movie Substrate · Film
Senseless (1998)
★ 6.2 · 398 ratings on TMDB
A secret experiment gave him super senses. Then came the side-effects.
A student gets his senses enhanced by an experimental drug. But abuse is not an option.
DirectorPenelope Spheeris
The emergence reading
Senseless keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E8perceptionperception amplified tenfold, but only four of the five senses can function simultaneously (technology · 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.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
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Inside Out (2015)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
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