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The School for Good and Evil (2022)
★ 7.0 · 1,371 ratings on TMDB
There are two sides to every story.
Best friends Sophie and Agatha navigate an enchanted school for young heroes and villains — and find themselves on opposing sides of the battle between good and evil.
DirectorPaul Feig
The emergence reading
The School for Good and Evil keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, morality, power, tradition.
zero-distanceUSidentitymoralitypowertradition
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E9storyany narrative written in the magical Storian pen becomes actual reality (social · universal)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)E8/E9/E10 · identity, power
Thor (2011)E8/E9/E10 · identity, power
Aladdin (1992)E8/E9/E10 · identity, power
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)E8/E9/E10 · identity, power
The Lion King (1994)E8/E9/E10 · identity, power
Rango (2011)E8/E9/E10 · identity, powerSame 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.
Insurgent (2015)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
Coco (2017)alters at E9 · same rung · rigorous
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
Wrath of the Titans (2012)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
Isn't It Romantic (2019)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
