Movie Substrate · Film
Yesterday (2019)
★ 6.7 · 4,253 ratings on TMDB
Everyone in the world has forgotten The Beatles. Everyone except Jack…
A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate reality where the group was forgotten.
DirectorDanny Boyle
The emergence reading
Yesterday keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing music, culture, fame, memory, love.
zero-distanceGBmusicculturefamememorylove
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E9historyThe Beatles never existed; no Beatles music or cultural impact (history · universal)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Saludos Amigos (1942)E8/E9 · culture, love
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)E8/E9 · culture, music
Beauty and the Beast (2017)E8/E9 · love, memory
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)E8/E9 · culture, love
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)E8/E9 · culture, love
Mulholland Drive (2001)E8/E9 · fame, memoryAlso 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.
Coco (2017)alters at E9 · same rung · rigorous
Teen Beach Movie (2013)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
Insurgent (2015)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
The Cabin in the Woods (2012)alters at E9 · same rung · rigorous
