Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
The game has evolved.
Four teenagers in detention discover an old video game console with a game they’ve never heard of. When they decide to play, they are immediately sucked into the jungle world of Jumanji in the bodies of their avatars. They’ll have to complete the adventure of their lives filled with fun, thrills and danger or be stuck in the game forever!
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, belonging, technology, survival.
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.
The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar (2016)E7/E9 · rare rung · belonging, identity
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)E13/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)E9/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
Titan A.E. (2000)E13/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
Space Battleship Yamato (2010)E13/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)E6/E13 · rare rung · survival, technologyAlso 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.
The Matrix (1999)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Pacific Rim (2013)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
The Terminator (1984)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Terminator Genisys (2015)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
