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The Dead Don't Die (2019)
★ 5.4 · 2,838 ratings on TMDB
The greatest zombie cast ever disassembled.
In the sleepy town of Centerville, the lives of a number of interconnected characters are disrupted by the undead.
DirectorJim Jarmusch
The emergence reading
The Dead Don't Die keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing mortality, survival, fear, authority, community.
zero-distanceJPmortalitysurvivalfearauthoritycommunity
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6undeaddead bodies reanimate as mindless zombies after death (biology · 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.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, fear
Shin Godzilla (2016)E10/E12 · rare rung · authority, fearAlso bends a rule of reality
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
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The Last Days on Mars (2013)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Lifeforce (1985)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Shaun of the Dead (2004)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
