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S1m0ne (2002)

★ 6.0 · 989 ratings on TMDB

A star is... created.

S1m0ne poster★ 6.0

The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simone" to sub for the star — the first totally believable synthetic actress.

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S1m0ne keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing media, celebrity, technology, identity.

zero-distanceUSmediacelebritytechnologyidentity
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E8simulationsynthetic humans are indistinguishable from real humans and granted personhood (technology · universal)