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The Legend of La Llorona (2011)
★ 7.8 · 294 ratings on TMDB
Based on a famous Mexican legend, a group of kids must stop the ghost of a woman whose guilt over the drowning of her own children leads her to abduct youngsters who wander the woods at night.
DirectorAlberto Rodríguez
The emergence reading
In The Legend of La Llorona, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “folklore ghost village”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing grief, myth, family, death, culture.
↷ the deadMXgriefmythfamilydeathculture
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also hides consciousness here
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Lake Mungo (2009)consciousness in the dead · haunted suburbia
The Dark (2005)consciousness in the dead · Welsh afterlife
Poltergeist (2015)consciousness in the dead · haunted house
Coco (2017)consciousness in the dead · afterlife of memorySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
A Monster Calls (2016)consciousness in monsters · death, family
Monster House (2006)consciousness in objects · death, family
Song of the Sea (2014)consciousness in animals · family, grief
Over the Moon (2020)consciousness carried elsewhere · family, grief
Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico (2003)consciousness in animals · culture, family
Hereditary (2018)consciousness in monsters · family, grief