What Women Want (2000)
He has the power to hear everything women are thinking. Finally... a man is listening.
Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.
What Women Want keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
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
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Inception (2010)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Avatar (2009)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Inside Out (2015)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Night at the Museum (2006)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
