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The Door into Summer (2021)
★ 6.4 · 50 ratings on TMDB
An adventure spanning 30 years starts now.
A pioneering roboticist awakens in 2025 after decades in cryosleep. To change the past and reunite with his adopted sister, he seeks a way back to 1995.
DirectorTakahiro Miki
The emergence reading
The Door into Summer keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceJP
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6sleepsuspended animation reliably halts biological aging and can be reversed after any chosen interval (technology · 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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Contagion (2011)E4/E14 · Drama, Science Fiction
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)E9/E14 · Drama, Science Fiction
PK (2014)E9/E10 · Drama, 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.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
I Am Legend (2007)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
Elysium (2013)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
