Movie Substrate · Film
The Time Machine (1960)
★ 7.4 · 904 ratings on TMDB
You Will Orbit into the Fantastic Future!
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
DirectorGeorge Pal
The emergence reading
The Time Machine keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E13 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E0timetime is traversable via machines, allowing forward jumps across centuries (physics · 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.
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)E12/E14 · Adventure, Science Fiction
Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)E11/E14 · Adventure, Fantasy
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)E11/E12 · Adventure, Science Fiction
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)E11/E12/E14 · Adventure, Science Fiction
Serenity (2005)E10/E11 · Adventure, Science Fiction
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)E11/E12 · Adventure, Science FictionAlso 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.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Back to the Future (1985)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Doctor Strange (2016)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Interstellar (2014)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
The Matrix (1999)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
