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Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013)
★ 6.9 · 437 ratings on TMDB
It's time to kick some legendary tale.
In a world plagued by demons who cause great human suffering, young demon hunter Tang Sanzang must fight against monstrous demons, as well as contend with a beautiful demon hunting woman on his path to enlightenment.
DirectorStephen Chow
The emergence reading
In Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “mythic demon realm”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing faith, love, otherness.
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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.
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Bedazzled (2000)consciousness in monsters · deal-with-the-devil
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)consciousness in monsters · secret fairy realmSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Legend (1985)consciousness in abstractions · faith, love
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)consciousness in aliens · love, otherness
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)consciousness in aliens · love, otherness
Over Her Dead Body (2008)consciousness in the dead · faith, love
The Three Caballeros (1944)consciousness in animals · love, otherness
A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)consciousness in the dead · faith, love
