Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)
Life is a trip, but the afterlife is one hell of a ride.
Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip to find her.
In Wristcutters: A Love Story, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “suicide afterlife”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing afterlife, suicide, apathy, bureaucracy, 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.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds (2017)consciousness in the dead · afterlife tribunal
Marry My Dead Body (2023)consciousness in the dead · ghost-marriage underworld
Just Like Heaven (2005)consciousness in the dead · afterlife apartment
Charlie St. Cloud (2010)consciousness in the dead · spirit realm
Always (1989)consciousness in the dead · spirit realm
After Life (1999)consciousness in the dead · afterlife memory clinicSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Elemental (2023)consciousness carried elsewhere · bureaucracy, love
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)consciousness carried elsewhere · afterlife, love
The Little Mermaid (1989)consciousness in animals · love
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)consciousness in monsters · love
Shrek 2 (2004)consciousness in animals · love
The Little Mermaid (2023)consciousness in monsters · love
