Movie Substrate · Film
Luxo Jr. (1986)
★ 7.1 · 672 ratings on TMDB
A baby lamp finds a ball to play with and it's all fun and games until the ball bursts. Just when the elder Luxo thinks his kid will settle down for a bit, Luxo Jr. finds a ball ten times bigger.
DirectorJohn Lasseter
The emergence reading
In Luxo Jr., consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “lamp world”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing family, emotion, identity.
↷ machinesUSfamilyemotionidentity
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same 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.
Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)consciousness in machines · sentient car racing
Stand by Me Doraemon 2 (2020)consciousness in machines · robotic companion world
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)consciousness in machines · cyberpunk scrapyard
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)consciousness in machines · digital arcade internet
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)consciousness in machines · arcade‑verse
Her (2013)consciousness in machines · digital intimacySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)consciousness in aliens · family, identity
Finding Nemo (2003)consciousness in animals · family, identity
Finding Dory (2016)consciousness in animals · family, identity
Shazam! (2019)consciousness in abstractions · family, identity
Onward (2020)consciousness in monsters · family, identity
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)consciousness in monsters · family, identitySame people
Shared director or cast.
