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X-Men: The Mutant Watch (2000)

★ 7.0 · 238 ratings on TMDB
X-Men: The Mutant Watch poster★ 7.0

While Senator Kelly addresses a senate committee about the supposed mutant menace, we learn about the making of the movie, X-Men (2000)

DirectorThomas C. Grane
CastBruce Davison, Bryan Singer, Dick Anthony Williams, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen
GenresDocumentary
The emergence reading

X-Men: The Mutant Watch keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E11/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, identity, power, law, conflict.

zero-distanceUSprejudiceidentitypowerlawconflict
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E4mutationDNA can produce superhuman abilities (powers) in humans (biology · universal)
Also inFilms about prejudiceFilms about identityFilms that alter a rule of reality
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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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.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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