Movie Substrate · Film
Timeline (2003)
★ 5.7 · 1,164 ratings on TMDB
They had to travel into the past to save the future
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.
DirectorRichard Donner
The emergence reading
Timeline keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E0timestable wormhole allows matter to be sent to a fixed point in the past (physics · personal)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)E9/E11 · Action, Adventure
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)E11/E12/E13 · Action, Adventure
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)E11/E12 · Action, Adventure
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)E11/E12 · Action, Adventure
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)E11/E12 · Action, Adventure
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)E9/E13 · Action, AdventureAlso 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.
Interstellar (2014)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Doctor Strange (2016)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Avengers: Endgame (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Back to the Future (1985)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
The Matrix (1999)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Groundhog Day (1993)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
