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Tomorrowland (2015)

★ 6.3 · 7,335 ratings on TMDB

Imagine a place where nothing is impossible.

Tomorrowland poster★ 6.3

Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomorrowland."

DirectorBrad Bird
CastBritt Robertson, Chris Bauer, George Clooney, Hugh Laurie, Kathryn Hahn, Keegan-Michael Key
GenresAdventure, Family, Mystery, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

In Tomorrowland, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “future utopia”. The story fights on E8/E14 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, optimism, future, innovation, hope.

↷ machinesUStechnologyoptimismfutureinnovationhope
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E8foreknowledgefuture possibilities are broadcast globally, making catastrophic outcomes known to everyone (technology · universal)
Also inConsciousness hiding in machinesFilms about technologyFilms that alter a rule of realityFilms that move consciousness off the human
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Also 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.

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Also hides consciousness here

Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.

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Same subject, different mask

The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.

Avengers: Endgame (2019)consciousness in aliens · technologyWar of the Worlds (2005)consciousness in aliens · technologyGodzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994)consciousness in monsters · technologySonic the Hedgehog (2020)consciousness in animals · technologyGodzilla (2014)consciousness in monsters · technologyJumanji: The Next Level (2019)consciousness carried elsewhere · technology

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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