Movie Substrate · Film
Spermageddon (2024)
★ 6.5 · 128 ratings on TMDB
Two narrative threads: one is an emerging love story between awkward teens Jens and Lisa, who are having sex for the first time; the other, an eventful quest of Simon the Semen and his friends to reach the golden goal, the Egg.
The emergence reading
In Spermageddon, consciousness is carried by another substrate — a plane of “sperm microcosm”. The story fights on E8/E9/E5 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing sexuality, competition, culture, identity.
↷ another substrateNOsexualitycompetitioncultureidentity
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
High School Musical (2006)E8/E9 · competition, culture
Best in Show (2000)E8/E9 · competition, culture
Bring It On: All or Nothing (2006)E8/E9 · competition, culture
Black Swan (2010)E8/E9 · competition, identity
Green Book (2018)E8/E9 · culture, identity
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)E8/E9 · culture, identityAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast (2014)consciousness carried elsewhere · pixie hollow
Hercules in New York (1970)consciousness carried elsewhere · god in metropolis
Big Fish & Begonia (2016)consciousness carried elsewhere · mystical underworld
Aladdin (1992)consciousness carried elsewhere · Arabian fantasy kingdom
Moana (2016)consciousness carried elsewhere · mythic Polynesian archipelago
Elemental (2023)consciousness carried elsewhere · elemental metropolisSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)consciousness in aliens · culture, identity
Cars (2006)consciousness in machines · competition, identity
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)consciousness in machines · culture, identity
Monsters University (2013)consciousness in monsters · competition, identity
Madagascar (2005)consciousness in animals · culture, identity
Kung Fu Panda (2008)consciousness in animals · culture, identity
