Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)
They were never alone.
In this fully animated, all-new take on the Smurfs, a mysterious map sets Smurfette and her friends Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty on an exciting race through the Forbidden Forest leading to the discovery of the biggest secret in Smurf history.
In Smurfs: The Lost Village, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “blue village”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, purpose, authority, prejudice, community.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000)E8/E9/E10 · authority, identity
Pixie Hollow Games (2011)E8/E9/E10 · authority, identity
Horton Hears a Who! (2008)E8/E9 · authority, community
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)E8/E9/E10 · authority, identity
Thor (2011)E8/E9/E10 · authority, identity
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)E8/E9/E10 · authority, 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.
Monsters vs Aliens (2009)consciousness in monsters · monster containment world
The Little Mermaid (2023)consciousness in monsters · underwater kingdom
Tinker Bell (2008)consciousness in monsters · fairy realm
Splash (1984)consciousness in monsters · mermaid city
Nimona (2023)consciousness in monsters · shapeshifter kingdom
The Boxtrolls (2014)consciousness in monsters · box‑troll undercitySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
We Bare Bears: The Movie (2020)consciousness in animals · authority, community
The Angry Birds Movie (2016)consciousness in animals · authority, community
Cars (2006)consciousness in machines · community, identity
Lilo & Stitch (2025)consciousness in aliens · authority, identity
Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2020)consciousness in aliens · authority, identity
Astro Boy (2009)consciousness in machines · authority, identity
