Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)
People love machines in 2029 A.D.
In the year 2029, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster'.
In Ghost in the Shell 2.0, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “cybernetic corporate dystopia”. The story fights on E8/E10/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, consciousness, exploitation, law, identity.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Free Guy (2021)E8/E11 · consciousness, exploitation
Ghost in the Shell (2017)E8/E11 · consciousness, identity
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)E8/E10 · exploitation, identity
Blade Runner (1982)E8/E10 · consciousness, identity
The Electric State (2025)E8/E10 · consciousness, exploitation
Companion (2025)E8/E11 · exploitation, identitySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)E6/E12 · rare rung · exploitation, technology
Origin: Spirits of the Past (2006)E12/E13 · rare rung · consciousness, technology
The Animatrix (2003)E9/E12 · rare rung · consciousness, identity
The Creator (2023)E9/E12 · rare rung · consciousness, technology
Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods (2014)E9/E12 · rare rung · exploitation, identityAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Short Circuit 2 (1988)consciousness in machines · robotic citizenship
Short Circuit (1986)consciousness in machines · sentient robot world
Wifelike (2022)consciousness in machines · android afterlife market
Mars Express (2023)consciousness in machines · martian android society
Vice (2015)consciousness in machines · synthetic resort
I, Robot (2004)consciousness in machines · AI dystopiaSame 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. 3 (2023)consciousness in animals · exploitation, identity
Ted 2 (2015)consciousness in objects · consciousness, identity
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)consciousness carried elsewhere · exploitation, identity
The Happytime Murders (2018)consciousness in objects · exploitation, identity
Spinning Man (2018)consciousness in aliens · consciousness, exploitation
The Man with Two Brains (1983)consciousness carried elsewhere · consciousness, identitySame people
Shared director or cast.
