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Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024)
★ 6.7 · 473 ratings on TMDB
There's a new way to be wicked.
After the Queen of Hearts incites a coup on Auradon, her rebellious daughter Red and Cinderella's perfectionist daughter Chloe join forces and travel back in time to try to undo the traumatic event that set Red's mother down her villainous path.
DirectorJennifer Phang
The emergence reading
Descendants: The Rise of Red keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, heritage, prejudice, power, tradition.
zero-distanceUSidentityheritageprejudicepowertradition
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E0timetime can be locally reversed for a few minutes using a magical pocket watch (technology · personal)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)E8/E9/E10 · identity, power
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Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (2019)E8/E9/E10 · identity, power
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998)E9/E10 · identity, power
The Karate Kid (1984)E8/E9 · identity, power
The Legend of Hei (2019)E8/E9 · identity, powerSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also bends a rule of reality
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Wreck-It Ralph (2012)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
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Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
The Marvels (2023)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Monsters vs Aliens (2009)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
