Finding Nemo (2003)
There are 3.7 trillion fish in the ocean. They're looking for one.
Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more along the way.
In Finding Nemo, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic ocean”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing family, growth, community, trust, identity.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Tarzan II (2005)E8/E9 · family, growth
Open Season 3 (2010)E8/E9 · community, family
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996)E8/E9 · community, family
Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (2005)E8/E9 · community, growth
Puss in Boots: The Three Diablos (2012)E8/E9 · family, identity
The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration (2003)E8/E9 · community, familySame 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 Good Dinosaur (2015)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic prehistoric world
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)consciousness in animals · Incan cartoon empire
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic forest
Barnyard (2006)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic farm
The Boy and the Beast (2015)consciousness in animals · beast kingdom
Bambi II (2006)consciousness in animals · forest rite of passageSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Grinch (2018)consciousness in monsters · community, family
Pinocchio (1940)consciousness in objects · family, growth
Onward (2020)consciousness in monsters · family, growth
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)consciousness in objects · community, family
Stand by Me Doraemon 2 (2020)consciousness in machines · family, growth
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)consciousness in aliens · family, identity
