Youth Without Youth (2007)
Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.
Youth Without Youth keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E14 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing language, evolution, spirituality, war, memory.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)E8/E14 · rare rung · war
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)E8/E14 · rare rung · war
Extinction (2018)E8/E14 · rare rung · memory
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)E8/E14 · rare rung · war
I, Frankenstein (2014)E8/E14 · rare rung · war
Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)E8/E14 · rare rung · warSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also 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.
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)alters at E6 · same rung · looseSame people
Shared director or cast.
