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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
★ 6.8 · 10,452 ratings on TMDB
Stay peculiar.
A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
DirectorTim Burton
The emergence reading
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 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
E0timetime repeats a single day indefinitely within a localized pocket, preventing aging (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.
Return to Oz (1985)E10/E13 · Adventure, Family
Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (2010)E6/E11 · Adventure, Family
Epic (2013)E6/E7 · Adventure, Family
Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom (2023)E12/E13 · Adventure, Family
Police Story 4: First Strike (1996)E11/E12 · Adventure, Drama
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)E10/E12 · Adventure, FamilyAlso 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.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Interstellar (2014)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Doctor Strange (2016)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Back to the Future (1985)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
The Matrix (1999)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Twelve Monkeys (1995)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
