Fantastic Planet (1973)
A sublime trip to a fine new world!
On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.
In Fantastic Planet, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “alien-colonial world”. The story fights on E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, colonialism, slavery, culture, oppression.
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.
Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (2005)E7/E8 · rare rung · culture, prejudice
Planet of the Apes (2001)E8/E13 · rare rung · oppression, prejudice
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)E8/E13 · rare rung · oppression, slavery
The Road to El Dorado (2000)E8/E13 · rare rung · colonialism, culture
Warcraft (2016)E12/E13 · rare rung · culture, prejudice
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)E11/E13 · rare rung · colonialism, prejudiceAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Enemy Mine (1985)consciousness in aliens · alien frontier
Avatar (2009)consciousness in aliens · alien moon colonization
Star Trek (2009)consciousness in aliens · interstellar federation
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)consciousness in aliens · Pandora colonization
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)consciousness in aliens · alien colonial frontier
Cowboys & Aliens (2011)consciousness in aliens · frontier alien invasionSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
King Kong (2005)consciousness in animals · colonialism, prejudice
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)consciousness in machines · culture, prejudice
Frozen II (2019)consciousness in monsters · colonialism, prejudice
George of the Jungle (1997)consciousness in animals · culture, prejudice
His House (2020)consciousness in monsters · culture, prejudice
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast (2014)consciousness carried elsewhere · culture, prejudice