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13 Sins (2014)
★ 6.3 · 1,198 ratings on TMDB
You don't play the game. It plays you.
Drowning in debt as he's about to get married, a bright but meek salesman receives a mysterious phone call informing him that he's on a hidden-camera game show where he must execute 13 tasks to receive a multi-million dollar cash prize.
DirectorDaniel Stamm
The emergence reading
13 Sins keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E10lawlegal immunity granted for any crime performed as part of the game (social · 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.
World War Z (2013)E4/E14 · Horror, Thriller
28 Weeks Later (2007)E4/E12/E14 · Horror, Thriller
The Purge: Election Year (2016)E12 · Horror, Thriller
Land of the Dead (2005)E11/E12 · Horror, Thriller
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)E13/E14 · Horror, Thriller
The Prophecy (1995)E7/E9 · Horror, 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.
WALL·E (2008)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
The Truman Show (1998)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
The Hunger Games (2012)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
Incredibles 2 (2018)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
I, Robot (2004)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
The Simpsons Movie (2007)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
