Movie Substrate · Film
I Origins (2014)
★ 7.6 · 3,446 ratings on TMDB
A molecular biologist's study of the human eye has far-reaching implications about humanity's scientific and spiritual beliefs.
DirectorMike Cahill
The emergence reading
I Origins 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
E8reincarnationiris patterns persist after death, enabling identification of a soul’s continuity across lives (technology · personal)
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.
Don't Look Up (2021)E14 · Drama, Science Fiction
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)E6/E11 · Drama, Science Fiction
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)E12/E13 · Drama, Science Fiction
Contagion (2011)E4/E14 · Drama, Science Fiction
WarGames (1983)E12/E14 · Drama, Science Fiction
Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)E6/E10 · Drama, 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.
Avatar (2009)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Inception (2010)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Inside Out (2015)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Assassin's Creed (2016)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
A Clockwork Orange (1971)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
