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Black Sheep (2006)
★ 5.8 · 814 ratings on TMDB
There are over 40 million sheep in New Zealand, and they're pissed off!
After a childhood prank by his brother Angus causes Henry to develop a phobia of sheep, he must step up to the onslaught of a genetically-mutated man-eating flock with the help of his friend and a young environmentalist.
DirectorJonathan King
The emergence reading
Black Sheep keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E4 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceNZ
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6infectionsheep bite transmits a pathogen that transforms humans into hybrid sheep (biology · 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.
Also bends a rule of reality
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I Am Legend (2007)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorousSame people
Shared director or cast.
