Movie Substrate · Film
Footloose (1984)
★ 6.7 · 2,195 ratings on TMDB
The music is on his side.
When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.
DirectorHerbert Ross
The emergence reading
Footloose 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
E10dancedancing and rock music are illegal throughout the town of Bomont (social · local)
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.
Also bends a rule of reality
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The Truman Show (1998)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
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The Hunger Games (2012)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
Pixels (2015)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
