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Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
★ 6.6 · 6,756 ratings on TMDB
It's time for a little madness.
Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
DirectorJames Bobin
The emergence reading
Alice Through the Looking Glass keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, memory, time, authority, madness.
zero-distanceUSidentitymemorytimeauthoritymadness
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E0timetime can be altered with the Chronosphere, breaking fixed causality in Wonderland (physics · 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
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Doctor Strange (2016)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Dark City (1998)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Monsters vs Aliens (2009)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Serenity (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Disenchanted (2022)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)alters at E0 · same rung · looseSame people
Shared director or cast.
