Movie Substrate · Film
Spirited Away (2001)
★ 8.5 · 18,234 ratings on TMDB
Beyond the tunnel was a mysterious town.
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
DirectorHayao Miyazaki
The emergence reading
In Spirited Away, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “spirit bathhouse”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, labor, environment, memory, tradition.
↷ the deadJPidentitylaborenvironmentmemorytradition
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.
Umma (2022)consciousness in the dead · haunted heritage farm
Coco (2017)consciousness in the dead · afterlife of memory
The Others (2001)consciousness in the dead · haunted afterlife house
Criminal (2016)consciousness in the dead · memory grafting thriller
When Marnie Was There (2014)consciousness in the dead · spirit-heritage
Byzantium (2013)consciousness in the dead · vampire underworldSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Call Me Chihiro (2023)consciousness carried elsewhere · environment, identity
Frozen II (2019)consciousness in monsters · environment, identity
Moana (2016)consciousness carried elsewhere · environment, identity
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)consciousness in objects · identity, memory
Happy Feet (2006)consciousness in animals · environment, identity
Wolfwalkers (2020)consciousness in animals · environment, identity
