Movie Substrate · Film
Splash (1984)
★ 6.3 · 1,477 ratings on TMDB
She was the woman of Allen's dreams. She had large dark eyes, a beautiful smile and a great pair of fins.
A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
DirectorRon Howard
The emergence reading
In Splash, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “mermaid romance”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing love, otherness, prejudice, identity, freedom.
↷ monsters and creaturesUSloveothernessprejudiceidentityfreedom
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6mermaida sentient amphibious species that can breathe underwater and interact with humans (biology · universal)