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They Cloned Tyrone (2023)
★ 6.5 · 741 ratings on TMDB
Beware cheap imitations.
A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy lurking directly beneath their neighborhood.
DirectorJuel Taylor
The emergence reading
They Cloned Tyrone keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E4/E9/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, surveillance, control, exploitation, identity.
zero-distanceUSprejudicesurveillancecontrolexploitationidentity
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E4cloninghuman cloning is technologically feasible and employed for mass replacement of Black individuals (technology · 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.
Bee Movie (2007)E7/E8/E10 · rare rung · exploitation, prejudice
Extinction (2018)E8/E14 · rare rung · identity, prejudice
Swamp Thing (1982)E6/E8 · rare rung · exploitation, identity
Species III (2005)E6/E10 · rare rung · exploitation, prejudice
The Matrix (1999)E8/E10/E13 · rare rung · control, identity
Underworld: Awakening (2012)E8/E13 · rare rung · identity, prejudiceAlso 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.
Ultraviolet (2006)alters at E4 · same rung · loose
Code 46 (2003)alters at E4 · same rung · loose
Splice (2010)alters at E4 · same rung · loose
Penelope (2007)alters at E4 · same rung · loose
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)alters at E4 · same rung · loose
Lilo & Stitch (2025)alters at E4 · same rung · loose
