Bambi: A Tale of Life in the Woods (2024)
The life of Bambi, a male roe deer, from his birth through childhood, the loss of his mother, the finding of a mate, the lessons he learns from his father, and the experience he gains about the dangers posed by human hunters in the forest.
In Bambi: A Tale of Life in the Woods, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “deer forest”. The story fights on E8/E7 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing survival, growth, mortality, predation, nature.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures (2010)E7/E8 · rare rung · survival
Balto: Wolf Quest (2002)E7/E8 · rare rung · survival
Pokémon 4Ever (2001)E7/E8 · rare rung · nature
Walking with Dinosaurs (2013)E7/E8 · rare rung · survival
2012: Ice Age (2011)E7/E8 · rare rung · survival
The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar (2016)E7 · rare rung · survivalSame 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.
The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island (1997)consciousness in animals · dinosaur island
The Red Turtle (2016)consciousness in animals · island sanctuary
The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze (2001)consciousness in animals · prehistoric valley
Ponyo (2008)consciousness in animals · magical ocean town
Flow (2024)consciousness in animals · flooded animal odyssey
The Land Before Time (1988)consciousness in animals · prehistoric dinosaur odysseySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Ruins (2008)consciousness in monsters · mortality, nature
Barbie Presents: Thumbelina (2009)consciousness in monsters · growth
Predator (1987)consciousness in aliens · predation, survival
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)consciousness carried elsewhere · mortality, survival
Predator 2 (1990)consciousness in aliens · predation, survival
Gantz (2010)consciousness in the dead · mortality, survival