Movie Substrate · Film
Man of the Year (2006)
★ 5.9 · 494 ratings on TMDB
Elections are made to be broken.
The irreverent host of a political satire talk show decides to run for president and expose corruption in Washington. His stunt goes further than he expects when he actually wins the election, but a software engineer suspects that a computer glitch is responsible for his surprising victory.
DirectorBarry Levinson
The emergence reading
Man of the Year keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E10lawelection winner determined by alphabetical order of double letters in candidate names, overriding actual votes (social · local)
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
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
The Simpsons Movie (2007)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
I, Robot (2004)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
