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The Adam Project (2022)
★ 7.0 · 4,903 ratings on TMDB
Past meets future.
After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.
DirectorShawn Levy
The emergence reading
The Adam Project keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E0timecausality is reversible: individuals can travel backward and forward in time using a jet (physics · 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.
Space Chimps (2008)E6/E10 · Adventure, Comedy
Avatar (2009)E9/E10/E13 · Adventure, Science Fiction
Jurassic World (2015)E4/E10 · Adventure, Science Fiction
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)E12/E14 · Adventure, Science Fiction
Frozen II (2019)E7/E9/E10 · Adventure, Comedy
Dune (2021)E9/E12 · Adventure, Science FictionAlso 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 Matrix (1999)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Doctor Strange (2016)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
