Movie Substrate · Film
The Call (2020)
★ 7.5 · 964 ratings on TMDB
A call from a serial killer... She'll begin to hunt your past.
Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a caller puts a woman’s past — and life — on the line to change her own fate.
DirectorLee Chung-hyun
The emergence reading
The Call keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceKR
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E0causalityinformation can travel backward in time through a cordless phone, linking 1999 and 2019 (physics · local)
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.
Death Note: L Change the WorLd (2008)E4/E14 · Mystery, Science Fiction
Tenet (2020)E0/E14 · Science Fiction, Thriller
World War Z (2013)E4/E14 · Science Fiction, Thriller
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)E12/E14 · Science Fiction, Thriller
V for Vendetta (2006)E10/E12 · Science Fiction, Thriller
Children of Men (2006)E12/E14 · Science Fiction, ThrillerAlso 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.
Doctor Strange (2016)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
The Matrix (1999)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Interstellar (2014)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Avengers: Endgame (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Back to the Future (1985)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
