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Paycheck (2003)

★ 6.2 · 2,015 ratings on TMDB

The future depends on a past he was paid to forget.

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Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.

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Paycheck keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E8memorymemory can be selectively erased on demand through a corporate procedure (technology · personal)