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Evolution (2001)

★ 6.1 · 2,468 ratings on TMDB

Coming to wipe that silly smile off your planet.

Evolution poster★ 6.1

A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "survival of the fittest." David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, and Julianne Moore are the only people standing between the aliens and world domination... which could be bad news for the Earth.

DirectorIvan Reitman
CastDan Aykroyd, David Duchovny, Ethan Suplee, Gregory Itzin, Julianne Moore, Michael Bower
GenresAction, Comedy, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

Evolution keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E6 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6evolutionevolution proceeds on hour‑scale instead of generational timescales (biology · local)
Also inFilms that alter a rule of reality
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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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