Earth is a memory worth fighting for.

Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.
In Oblivion, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “post‑apocalyptic AI colony”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, control, memory, identity, survival.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Species (1995)E4/E11/E14 · rare rung · control, survival
They Cloned Tyrone (2023)E4/E9/E11 · rare rung · control, identity
The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar (2016)E7/E9 · rare rung · identity, survival
Pacific Rim (2013)E11/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)E13/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)E9/E14 · rare rung · survival, technologyOther films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Extinction (2018)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Nirvana (1997)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2007)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
The Host (2013)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Surrogates (2009)alters at E8 · same rung · looseOther films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Matrix (1999)consciousness in machines · simulated reality
I, Robot (2004)consciousness in machines · AI dystopia
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)consciousness in machines · replicant dystopia
The Emoji Movie (2017)consciousness in machines · emoji smartphone world
Ghost in the Shell (1995)consciousness in machines · cybernetic future
Tron (1982)consciousness in machines · digital gridThe same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Morbius (2022)consciousness in monsters · control, identity
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)consciousness in animals · control, identity
The Signal (2014)consciousness in aliens · control, identity
Criminal (2016)consciousness in the dead · identity, memory
Gantz (2010)consciousness in the dead · control, survival
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)consciousness carried elsewhere · identity, survival