Movie Substrate · Film
What Happened to Monday (2017)
★ 7.1 · 6,423 ratings on TMDB
Seven sisters. One identity.
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
DirectorTommy Wirkola
The emergence reading
What Happened to Monday keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceFR
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E10lawa universal one‑child policy enforced by mandatory cryosleep for any illegal births (social · 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.
Death Note: L Change the WorLd (2008)E4/E14 · Action, Mystery
World War Z (2013)E4/E14 · Action, Science Fiction
Tenet (2020)E0/E14 · Action, Science Fiction
Starship Troopers (1997)E12/E13 · Action, Science Fiction
Children of Men (2006)E12/E14 · Action, Science Fiction
Escape from L.A. (1996)E9/E12 · Action, 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 Hunger Games (2012)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
The Truman Show (1998)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
WALL·E (2008)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
In Time (2011)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
