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Civil War (2024)
★ 6.9 · 4,284 ratings on TMDB
Welcome to the frontline.
In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.
DirectorAlex Garland
The emergence reading
Civil War keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceGB
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: rigorous
E12historythe United States collapses into a civil war under an authoritarian third-term president, splitting into secessionist factions (history · local)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)E8/E12 · rare rung
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)E8/E12 · rare rung
Wonder Woman (2017)E8/E12 · rare rung
The Hunger Games (2012)E8/E12 · rare rung
Gladiator (2000)E8/E12 · rare rung
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)E8/E12 · rare rungSame 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.
V for Vendetta (2006)alters at E12 · same rung · loose
Iron Sky (2012)alters at E12 · same rung · loose
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020)alters at E12 · same rung · loose
Red Dawn (1984)alters at E12 · same rung · loose
Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010)alters at E12 · same rung · loose
Barb Wire (1996)alters at E12 · same rung · loose
