The Island (2005)
Your time will come...
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie.
The Island keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing exploitation, identity, class.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Freejack (1992)E8/E11 · class, exploitation
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)E8 · class, exploitation
Priceless (2006)E8 · class, exploitation
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)E8/E11 · exploitation, identity
Venom (2018)E8/E11 · exploitation, identity
Venom: The Last Dance (2024)E8/E11 · exploitation, identitySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
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