Movie Substrate · Film
Identity (2003)
★ 7.2 · 4,319 ratings on TMDB
The secret lies within.
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
DirectorJames Mangold
The emergence reading
Identity keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E8identityeach distinct personality of a single mind is instantiated as a separate physical individual in a shared environment (cognition · 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.
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.
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
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Night at the Museum (2006)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Get Out (2017)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
