Enthiran (2010)
Dr. Vaseegaran creates Chitti, a powerful robot in his own image, but it is rejected by the scientific body AIRD due to its lack of human behaviour and emotions. After a lightning strike triggers emotions in Chitti, he begins to develop human-like feelings. However, Chitti falls in love with Dr. Vaseegaran's fiancée, Sana, and turns against his creator, leading to dangerous consequences.
In Enthiran, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “android consciousness arena”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, consciousness, authority.
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.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)E9/E14 · rare rung · authority, technology
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)E12/E14 · rare rung · authority, technology
WarGames (1983)E12/E14 · rare rung · authority, technology
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013)E11/E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, technology
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, technology
Origin: Spirits of the Past (2006)E12/E13 · rare rung · consciousness, technologyAlso bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Ghost in the Shell (1995)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Outside the Wire (2021)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Archive (2020)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Ghostbusters (1984)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Minority Report (2002)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Her (2013)alters at E8 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Black Hole (1979)consciousness in machines · robotic starship
Blade Runner (1982)consciousness in machines · future corporate dystopia
I, Robot (2004)consciousness in machines · AI dystopia
Lucy (2014)consciousness in machines · brain machine singularity
Transcendence (2014)consciousness in machines · singularitarian digital realm
RoboCop (2014)consciousness in machines · cybernetic policingSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Golden Compass (2007)consciousness in animals · authority, consciousness
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)consciousness in objects · authority, consciousness
Flushed Away (2006)consciousness in animals · authority, technology
The Boxtrolls (2014)consciousness in monsters · authority, technology
The Man with Two Brains (1983)consciousness carried elsewhere · consciousness, technology
Redline (2009)consciousness in aliens · authority, technology
