Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)
Return to the magic.
Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he entrusts magizoologist Newt Scamander to lead an intrepid team of wizards and witches. They soon encounter an array of old and new beasts as they clash with Grindelwald's growing legion of followers.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing politics, power, prejudice, magic, war.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
X-Men: First Class (2011)E8/E10 · power, prejudice
Captain Marvel (2019)E8/E10 · power, prejudice
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)E8/E10 · magic, power
Underworld (2003)E8/E10 · power, prejudice
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (2021)E8/E10 · politics, power
Vampire Academy (2014)E8/E10 · magic, powerSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)E7/E12 · rare rung · power, war
Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · power, prejudice
Iron Sky (2012)E12/E14 · rare rung · politics, prejudice
Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (2010)E6/E11 · rare rung · power, war
Skylines (2020)E6/E13 · rare rung · power, war
Warcraft (2016)E12/E13 · rare rung · power, prejudiceSame people
Shared director or cast.
