Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
Unleash a new reality
Led by a strange dream, scientist Aki Ross struggles to collect the eight spirits in the hope of creating a force powerful enough to protect the planet. With the aid of the Deep Eyes Squadron and her mentor, Dr. Sid, Aki must save the Earth from its darkest hate and unleash the spirits within.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E13 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing environment, infection, technology, coordination, spirit.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The Abyss (1989)E8/E13 · rare rung · environment, technology
Mortal Engines (2018)E8/E13 · rare rung · environment, technology
Meet Dave (2008)E8/E13 · rare rung · environment, technology
Ratchet & Clank (2016)E8/E13 · rare rung · environment, technology
WALL·E (2008)E13 · rare rung · environment, technology
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)E13 · rare rung · coordination, technologySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)E7/E12 · rare rung · environment, technology
FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)E7/E9 · rare rung · environment, spirit
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)E7/E10 · rare rung · environment, technology
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994)E6/E11/E14 · rare rung · environment, technology
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)E12/E14 · rare rung · coordination, environment
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)E9/E14 · rare rung · environment, technologyAlso 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.
