Heart and Souls (1993)
The story of four souls who needed a body and one guy who needed some soul.
A fateful night in 1959, four people die when the bus they are riding crashes. They continue as ghosts; their souls become eternally entwined to the life of a child born at the moment of their deaths as his guardians. Baby Thomas grows up to be a businessman who has memories of his playmates, but assumes they are products of his youthful imagination. When the ghosts realize they need Thomas' help to move on to the afterlife, they decide to make an appearance once more.
In Heart and Souls, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “spirit-attachment”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing grief, abandonment, memory, love.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
A Ghost Story (2017)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Trolls (2016)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Casper (1995)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Vanilla Sky (2001)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Ghost (1990)alters at E8 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)consciousness in the dead · spectral romance counseling
All of Us Strangers (2023)consciousness in the dead · ghostly memory
Just Like Heaven (2005)consciousness in the dead · afterlife apartment
Corpse Bride (2005)consciousness in the dead · spirit underworld
The Others (2001)consciousness in the dead · haunted afterlife house
When Marnie Was There (2014)consciousness in the dead · spirit-heritageSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Robot Dreams (2023)consciousness in animals · grief, love
The Babadook (2014)consciousness in monsters · grief, memory
Monster House (2006)consciousness in objects · grief, memory
Solaris (1972)consciousness in aliens · grief, memory
IF (2024)consciousness in monsters · grief, memory
A Dog's Journey (2019)consciousness in animals · grief, love
