Movie Substrate · Film
Timecrimes (2007)
★ 7.0 · 1,448 ratings on TMDB
A trip back in time from the present to...
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
DirectorNacho Vigalondo
The emergence reading
Timecrimes keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceES
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: rigorous
E0timetime can be locally reversed for a single individual, allowing travel back about an hour and creating overlapping copies of himself (physics · 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.
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)E12/E14 · Science Fiction, Thriller
V for Vendetta (2006)E10/E12 · Science Fiction, Thriller
World War Z (2013)E4/E14 · Science Fiction, Thriller
Tenet (2020)E0/E14 · Science Fiction, Thriller
Geostorm (2017)E11/E12 · Science Fiction, Thriller
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)E11/E12 · Science Fiction, ThrillerAlso bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
The Matrix (1999)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Doctor Strange (2016)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Back to the Future (1985)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Interstellar (2014)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
