Movie Substrate · Film
The Time Machine (2002)
★ 6.3 · 2,519 ratings on TMDB
The greatest adventure THROUGH all time!
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
DirectorSimon Wells
The emergence reading
The Time Machine keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E0timecausality is traversable; time can be moved forward and backward via machines (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.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)E11/E12/E13 · Action, Adventure
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)E11/E12 · Action, Adventure
Independence Day (1996)E12/E13 · Action, Adventure
Men in Black (1997)E11/E13 · Action, Adventure
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)E11/E12 · Action, Adventure
2012 (2009)E12/E14 · Action, AdventureAlso 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.
Interstellar (2014)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
The Matrix (1999)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Doctor Strange (2016)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Back to the Future (1985)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Avengers: Endgame (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Pacific Rim (2013)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
