Movie Substrate · Film
The Incredibles (2004)
★ 7.7 · 18,812 ratings on TMDB
Expect the incredible.
Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbia. But when he receives a mysterious assignment, it's time to get back into costume.
DirectorBrad Bird
The emergence reading
The Incredibles 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 prejudice, authority, family, power.
zero-distanceUSprejudiceauthorityfamilypower
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: rigorous
E10lawgovernment bans public use of superpowers and enforces a relocation program for all supers (social · universal)
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 · authority, power
The Lion King (1994)E8/E9/E10 · authority, family
The Lion King (2019)E8/E9/E10 · authority, family
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)E8/E9/E10 · authority, power
Shrek Forever After (2010)E8/E9/E10 · authority, power
Amarcord (1973)E8/E9/E10 · authority, familySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · authority, power
Warcraft (2016)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, power
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013)E11/E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, power
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010)E11/E13 · rare rung · authority, power
X-Men: The Mutant Watch (2000)E11/E12 · rare rung · power, prejudiceAlso 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.
The Wave (2008)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
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The Simpsons Movie (2007)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
The First Purge (2018)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
Circle (2015)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
