Movie Substrate · Film
The World's End (2013)
★ 6.8 · 5,850 ratings on TMDB
Good food. Fine ales. Total annihilation.
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
DirectorEdgar Wright
The emergence reading
In The World's End, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “pub‑crawl apocalypse”. The story fights on E8/E14 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing conformity, technology, nostalgia, alien, apocalypse.
↷ machinesGBconformitytechnologynostalgiaalienapocalypse
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 hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
I, Robot (2004)consciousness in machines · AI dystopia
Alien: Covenant (2017)consciousness in machines · colonial horror frontier
Terminator Genisys (2015)consciousness in machines · AI apocalypse
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)consciousness in machines · machine-time-war
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)consciousness in machines · AI apocalypse
Tomorrowland (2015)consciousness in machines · future utopiaSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)consciousness in aliens · alien, technology
Space Battleship Yamato (2010)consciousness in aliens · alien, technology
Legion (2010)consciousness carried elsewhere · apocalypse
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994)consciousness in monsters · technology
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)consciousness in animals · alien, technology
Ghost World (2001)consciousness in the dead · apocalypse, technology
