The Siege (1998)
An enemy they can't see. A nation under siege. A crisis they can't control.
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent and his team attempt to locate and decommission the enemy cells, but must also deal with an Army General gone rogue and a female CIA agent of uncertain loyalties.
The Siege keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E11/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
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.
Also 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 Truman Show (1998)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
The Hunger Games (2012)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
WALL·E (2008)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
Pixels (2015)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
The Simpsons Movie (2007)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
