In the future, intelligence is extinct.

To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average European-Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.
Idiocracy keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E13 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing consumerism, authority, inequality.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)E8/E13 · rare rung · authority
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)E8/E13 · rare rung · authority
Thor: The Dark World (2013)E8/E13 · rare rung · authority
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)E8/E13 · rare rung · authority
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)E8/E13 · rare rung · authority
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)E8/E13 · rare rung · inequalityThe same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
They Live (1988)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Ghostbusters (1984)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
A Clockwork Orange (1971)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Minority Report (2002)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Us (2019)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Isle of Dogs (2018)alters at E8 · same rung · loose