Movie Substrate · Film
Finding Dory (2016)
★ 7.0 · 12,620 ratings on TMDB
An unforgettable journey she probably won't remember.
Dory is reunited with her friends Nemo and Marlin in the search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?
DirectorAndrew Stanton
The emergence reading
In Finding Dory, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “underwater community”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing memory, family, identity.
↷ animalsUSmemoryfamilyidentity
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Hop (2011)E8/E9/E10 · family, identity
The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)E8/E9/E10 · family, identity
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)E8/E9/E10 · family, identity
An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000)E8/E9/E10 · family, identity
Barbie as the Island Princess (2007)E8/E9/E10 · family, identity
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996)E8/E9/E10 · family, identitySame 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.
Brave (2012)consciousness in animals · highland clan myth
The Lion King (1994)consciousness in animals · savanna monarchy
Paddington (2014)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic bear in London
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)consciousness in animals · chipmunk pop industry
The Boy and the Beast (2015)consciousness in animals · beast kingdom
How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019)consciousness in animals · dragon-kin villageSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Disenchanted (2022)consciousness carried elsewhere · family, identity
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)consciousness in objects · family, identity
When Marnie Was There (2014)consciousness in the dead · family, identity
Umma (2022)consciousness in the dead · family, identity
Stand by Me Doraemon 2 (2020)consciousness in machines · family, identity
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)consciousness in monsters · family, identity
