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Source Code (2011)

★ 7.3 · 9,063 ratings on TMDB

Make every second count.

Source Code poster★ 7.3

When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.

DirectorDuncan Jones
CastBrent Skagford, Cas Anvar, Craig Thomas, Gordon Masten, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jeffrey Wright
GenresMystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
The emergence reading

Source Code keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing time, terrorism, identity, memory.

zero-distanceCAtimeterrorismidentitymemory
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: rigorous
E8memorydead passengers' residual memories are externalized into a navigable eight‑minute simulation that a consciousness can enter (technology · personal)
Also inFilms about memoryFilms 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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Also bends a rule of reality

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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