Movie Substrate · Film
Saved! (2004)
★ 6.4 · 509 ratings on TMDB
Heaven help us.
Mary is a good Christian girl who goes to a good Christian high school where she has good Christian friends and a perfect Christian boyfriend. Her life seems perfect, until the day that she finds out that her boyfriend may be gay — and that she’s pregnant.
DirectorBrian Dannelly
GenresComedy
The emergence reading
Saved! keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing faith, prejudice, authority, hypocrisy, teen.
zero-distanceUSfaithprejudiceauthorityhypocrisyteen
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)E8/E10 · authority, faith
Season of the Witch (2011)E8/E10 · authority, faith
Forbidden Empire (2014)E8/E10 · authority, faith
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)E8/E10 · authority, prejudice
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)E8/E10 · authority, prejudice
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)E8/E10 · authority, prejudiceSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · authority, prejudice
Warcraft (2016)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, prejudice
Wizards (1977)E9/E13 · rare rung · faith, prejudice
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)E9/E12 · rare rung · authority, prejudice
Escape from L.A. (1996)E9/E12 · rare rung · authority, prejudice
Hail, Caesar! (2016)E9/E11 · authority, prejudice
