Movie Substrate · Film
Winter's Tale (2014)
★ 6.3 · 1,410 ratings on TMDB
This is not a true story. This is true love.
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.
DirectorAkiva Goldsman
The emergence reading
In Winter's Tale, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “mythic new york”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing love, miracle, immortality, destiny.
↷ monsters and creaturesUSlovemiracleimmortalitydestiny
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.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)consciousness in monsters · immortal love triangle
Fallen (2016)consciousness in monsters · cursed-reincarnation academy
Barbie of Swan Lake (2003)consciousness in monsters · enchanted forest romance
White Snake (2019)consciousness in monsters · demon love saga
Innocent Blood (1992)consciousness in monsters · vampire crime noir
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)consciousness in monsters · holiday monster townSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Sleeping Beauty (1959)consciousness carried elsewhere · destiny, love
Cocoon: The Return (1988)consciousness in aliens · immortality, love
The Last: Naruto the Movie (2014)consciousness in aliens · destiny, love
Her (2013)consciousness in machines · love
Aladdin (1992)consciousness carried elsewhere · love
Corpse Bride (2005)consciousness in the dead · love
