Movie Substrate · Film
The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
★ 5.6 · 3,543 ratings on TMDB
The future unleashed every thing.
Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
DirectorJulius Onah
The emergence reading
The Cloverfield Paradox keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E6 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E0parallelparticle interactions can create stable portals to parallel universes (physics · universal)
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.
World War Z (2013)E4/E14 · Horror, Science Fiction
Allegiant (2016)E9/E10/E11 · Mystery, Science Fiction
28 Weeks Later (2007)E4/E12/E14 · Horror, Science Fiction
The Unholy (2021)E9/E10 · Horror, Mystery
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)E9/E10/E13 · Mystery, Science Fiction
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)E13/E14 · Horror, Science FictionAlso 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
Avengers: Endgame (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Back to the Future (1985)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Doctor Strange (2016)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Interstellar (2014)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Star Trek (2009)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
