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Divergent (2014)
★ 6.9 · 13,425 ratings on TMDB
What makes you different makes you dangerous.
In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.
DirectorNeil Burger
The emergence reading
Divergent 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
E10castesociety is organized into five rigid, legally enforced factions determined by a mandatory aptitude test (social · universal)
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.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)E11/E12/E13 · Action, Adventure
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)E11/E12 · Action, Adventure
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)E6/E11 · Action, Adventure
Men in Black (1997)E11/E13 · Action, Adventure
Pacific Rim (2013)E11/E14 · Action, Adventure
2012 (2009)E12/E14 · Action, AdventureAlso 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.
The Hunger Games (2012)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
The Truman Show (1998)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
WALL·E (2008)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
Pixels (2015)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
