Harvey (1950)
The Wonderful Pulitzer Prize Play … becomes one of the Great Motion Pictures of our Time!
The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.
In Harvey, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “invisible rabbit world”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing sanity, conformity, imagination.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Antz (1998)consciousness in animals · anthill metropolis
The Cat Returns (2002)consciousness in animals · cat kingdom
Happy Feet (2006)consciousness in animals · penguin colony
The Cat in the Hat (2003)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic cat chaos
Wonder Park (2019)consciousness in animals · imagination park
The Lion King (2019)consciousness in animals · pride kingdomSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Lego Movie (2014)consciousness in objects · imagination
Planet 51 (2009)consciousness in aliens · conformity
Pleasantville (1998)consciousness in abstractions · conformity
Slumberland (2022)consciousness in abstractions · imagination
UglyDolls (2019)consciousness in objects · conformity
Kleks Academy (2024)consciousness in machines · imagination
