Flushed Away (2006)
Someone's going down
London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the sewer bowels of Ratropolis, where Roddy meets the resourceful Rita, the rodent-hating Toad and his faithful thugs, Spike and Whitey.
In Flushed Away, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “sewer metropolis”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing class, authority, prejudice, technology, survival.
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.
Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · authority, prejudice
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)E11/E14 · rare rung · class, technology
Pacific Rim (2013)E11/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)E12/E14 · rare rung · authority, technology
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)E13/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
Titan A.E. (2000)E13/E14 · rare rung · survival, technologyAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Antz (1998)consciousness in animals · anthill metropolis
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (2022)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic feudal Japan
Ernest & Celestine (2012)consciousness in animals · animal society
The Prince and the Pauper (1990)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic animal kingdom
Planet of the Apes (1968)consciousness in animals · ape-ruled Earth
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)consciousness in animals · post‑apocalyptic ape empireSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Boxtrolls (2014)consciousness in monsters · authority, class
Metropolis (2001)consciousness in machines · authority, class
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)consciousness in machines · class, prejudice
Promare (2019)consciousness in monsters · authority, prejudice
Cowboys & Aliens (2011)consciousness in aliens · prejudice, survival
Redline (2009)consciousness in aliens · authority, prejudiceSame people
Shared director or cast.
