
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.
Holy Motors 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, performance, media, art, reality.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
eXistenZ (1999)E8/E9/E10 · identity, media
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)E8/E9/E10 · identity, media
Megamind (2010)E8/E9/E10 · identity, media
The Emoji Movie (2017)E8/E9/E10 · identity, media
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)E8/E9/E10 · identity, performance
The Addams Family (2019)E8/E9/E10 · identity, media