Never play with fire.

For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family's location, a mysterious operative is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all. Charlie has other plans.
Firestarter keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, control, survival, authority, exploitation.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Kinds of Kindness (2024)E8/E11 · authority, control
The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) (2015)E8 · authority, control
BLAME! (2017)E8 · authority, control
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)E8/E11 · authority, control
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)E8/E11 · exploitation, power
Escape Room (2019)E8/E11 · control, exploitationThe same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Seoul Station (2016)E4/E9/E10 · rare rung · authority, survival
Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)E7/E9 · rare rung · exploitation, power
Roger & Me (1989)E7/E10 · rare rung · authority, exploitation
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)E7/E10 · rare rung · power, survival
Dogma (1999)E9/E10/E14 · rare rung · authority, power
Priest (2011)E6/E9/E10 · rare rung · authority, survival