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Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)
★ 6.2 · 1,083 ratings on TMDB
All the magic of Disney's legendary classic continues.
Astonished to find the Beast has a deep-seated hatred for the Christmas season, Belle endeavors to change his mind on the matter.
DirectorAndy Knight
The emergence reading
In Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, consciousness is carried by toys and objects — a plane of “enchanted castle”. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing love, transformation, consciousness, otherness, obsolescence.
↷ toys and objectsUSlovetransformationconsciousnessothernessobsolescence
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.
Bride of Chucky (1998)consciousness in objects · killer dolls
Knick Knack (1989)consciousness in objects · toy‑shelf world
Dolls (1987)consciousness in objects · sentient toy mansion
Hawaiian Vacation (2011)consciousness in objects · toy bedroom
Destino (2003)consciousness in objects · surreal dreamscape
Toy Story 4 (2019)consciousness in objects · toy-shelf worldSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Shape of Water (2017)consciousness in monsters · love, otherness
Her (2013)consciousness in machines · consciousness, love
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)consciousness in monsters · love, otherness
The Little Mermaid (1989)consciousness in animals · love, transformation
Swiss Army Man (2016)consciousness in the dead · consciousness, love
Warm Bodies (2013)consciousness in the dead · love, transformation
