Subservience (2024)
Don't turn her on.
With his wife out sick, a struggling father brings home a lifelike AI, only to have his self-aware new help want everything her new family has to offer... Like the affection of her owner and she'll kill to get it.
In Subservience, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “domestic-android dystopia”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, labor, control, family, obsolescence.
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.
Aliens in the Attic (2009)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Afraid (2024)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Oblivion (2013)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Ex Machina (2015)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Minority Report (2002)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
TRON: Legacy (2010)alters at E8 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)consciousness in machines · robotic apocalypse
Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)consciousness in machines · sentient car racing
Bigbug (2022)consciousness in machines · smart‑home dystopia
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)consciousness in machines · virtual‑reality game
Ra.One (2011)consciousness in machines · game‑world invasion
The Matrix (1999)consciousness in machines · simulated realitySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Room (2019)consciousness in monsters · control, family
Blue Beetle (2023)consciousness in aliens · family, technology
Morbius (2022)consciousness in monsters · control, technology
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)consciousness in animals · control, technology
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)consciousness carried elsewhere · family, technology
The Signal (2014)consciousness in aliens · control, technology
