Movie Substrate · Film
The Cat in the Hat (2003)
★ 5.3 · 1,772 ratings on TMDB
Don't mess with the hat.
During a rainy day, and while their mother is out, Conrad and Sally, and their pet fish, are visited by the mischievous Cat in the Hat. Fun soon turns to mayhem, and the siblings must figure out how to rid themselves of the maniacal Cat.
DirectorBo Welch
The emergence reading
In The Cat in the Hat, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic cat chaos”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing responsibility, authority, family, chaos, imagination.
↷ animalsUSresponsibilityauthorityfamilychaosimagination
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)consciousness in animals · prehistoric animal herd
The Lion King (1994)consciousness in animals · savanna monarchy
Brave (2012)consciousness in animals · highland clan myth
The Lion King (2019)consciousness in animals · pride kingdom
Dinosaur (2000)consciousness in animals · prehistoric herd
Look Who's Talking Now! (1993)consciousness in animals · talking-dog suburbSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)consciousness in objects · authority, family
The Lego Movie (2014)consciousness in objects · authority, imagination
Lilo & Stitch (2002)consciousness in aliens · authority, family
Nanny McPhee (2005)consciousness in monsters · authority, family
A Monster Calls (2016)consciousness in monsters · family, imagination
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (2008)consciousness in aliens · authority, family
