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Allegiant (2016)

★ 6.1 · 6,951 ratings on TMDB

The truth lies beyond the wall.

Allegiant poster★ 6.1

Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.

DirectorRobert Schwentke
CastAnsel Elgort, Daniel Dae Kim, Jeff Daniels, Keiynan Lonsdale, Miles Teller, Naomi Watts
GenresAction, Adventure, Mystery, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

Allegiant keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E9/E10/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, identity, power, control, inequality.

zero-distanceCAprejudiceidentitypowercontrolinequality
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6genomegenetically pure humans can be created and exist (biology · universal)
Also inFilms about controlFilms about prejudiceFilms about identityFilms that alter a rule of reality
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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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.

Appleseed (2004)alters at E6 · same rung · looseBlade (1998)alters at E6 · same rung · looseRuby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023)alters at E6 · same rung · looseByzantium (2013)alters at E6 · same rung · looseUglies (2024)alters at E6 · same rung · looseZ-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 (2020)alters at E6 · same rung · loose

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Insurgent (2015)dir. Robert SchwentkeDivergent (2014)Ansel ElgortRED (2010)dir. Robert SchwentkeR.I.P.D. (2013)dir. Robert SchwentkeThe Fault in Our Stars (2014)Ansel ElgortThe Spectacular Now (2013)Miles Teller