Movie Substrate · Film
Silent Night (2021)
★ 5.9 · 602 ratings on TMDB
Surviving Christmas just got a little harder.
Nell, Simon, and their boy Art are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfect Christmas gathering. Perfect except for one thing: everyone is going to die.
DirectorCamille Griffin
The emergence reading
Silent Night keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing death, choice, family, policy, environment.
zero-distanceGBdeathchoicefamilypolicyenvironment
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E10suicidegovernment mandates all citizens take a suicide pill before a lethal gas cloud arrives (social · universal)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also 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.
The Simpsons Movie (2007)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
WALL·E (2008)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
Incredibles 2 (2018)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
The Incredibles (2004)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
R.I.P.D. (2013)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
