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Replicas (2018)

★ 6.0 · 1,473 ratings on TMDB

Some humans are unstoppable

Replicas poster★ 6.0

A scientist becomes obsessed with returning his family to normalcy after a terrible accident.

DirectorJeffrey Nachmanoff
CastAlice Eve, Amber Rivera, Aria Lyric Leabu, Emily Alyn Lind, Emjay Anthony, Jeffrey Holsman
GenresDrama, Science Fiction, Thriller
The emergence reading

In Replicas, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “mind‑upload dystopia”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, mortality, grief, ethics, corporate.

↷ machinesUStechnologymortalitygriefethicscorporate
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E8consciousnessmind can be transferred into another body (android or cloned) as a technology (technology · personal)
Also inFilms about griefConsciousness hiding in machinesFilms about mortalityFilms about technology
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Same rung, same subject

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

Bicentennial Man (1999)E8/E10 · mortality, technologyChild's Play (2019)E8/E10 · corporate, technologyTron (1982)E8/E10 · corporate, technologyMorgan (2016)E8/E10 · ethics, technologyThe Electric State (2025)E8/E10 · corporate, technologyStealth (2005)E8/E10 · ethics, technology

Same subject, different rung

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

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)E12/E14 · rare rung · mortality, technologyGodzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)E6/E11 · rare rung · mortality, technologyStar Trek: Insurrection (1998)E9/E11 · ethics, technologyRoboCop 3 (1993)E9/E11 · corporate, technology

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.

TRON: Ares (2025)alters at E8 · same rung · looseArchive (2020)alters at E8 · same rung · looseI Still See You (2018)alters at E8 · same rung · looseLucy (2014)alters at E8 · same rung · looseChappie (2015)alters at E8 · same rung · looseEx Machina (2015)alters at E8 · same rung · loose

Also hides consciousness here

Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.

Deadly Friend (1986)consciousness in machines · robotic resurrectionBlade Runner (1982)consciousness in machines · future corporate dystopiaTranscendence (2014)consciousness in machines · singularitarian digital realmM3GAN (2022)consciousness in machines · sentient-toy horrorAlien: Romulus (2024)consciousness in machines · corporate mining outpostUpgrade (2018)consciousness in machines · cybernetic augmentation

Same subject, different mask

The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.

Child's Play 2 (1990)consciousness in objects · corporate, mortalityJurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)consciousness in animals · ethics, technologyMorbius (2022)consciousness in monsters · mortality, technologyBlue Beetle (2023)consciousness in aliens · corporate, technologyCollateral Beauty (2016)consciousness in abstractions · corporate, griefMeet Joe Black (1998)consciousness in abstractions · corporate, mortality

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Traitor (2008)dir. Jeffrey NachmanoffThe Matrix (1999)Keanu ReevesJohn Wick (2014)Keanu ReevesKong: Skull Island (2017)John OrtizSilver Linings Playbook (2012)John OrtizMen in Black 3 (2012)Alice Eve