The Devil's Advocate (1997)
The newest attorney at the world's most powerful law firm has never lost a case. But he's about to lose his soul.
Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.
In The Devil's Advocate, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “legal underworld”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, corruption, faith, law, ambition.
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.
Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)E9/E13 · rare rung · faith, power
The Keep (1983)E11/E13 · rare rung · faith, power
Wizards (1977)E9/E13 · rare rung · faith, power
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)E11/E12 · rare rung · corruption, power
X-Men: The Mutant Watch (2000)E11/E12 · rare rung · law, power
Hail, Caesar! (2016)E9/E11 · corruption, powerAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Beowulf (2007)consciousness in monsters · mythic mead‑hall
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)consciousness in monsters · possession horror
Spawn (1997)consciousness in monsters · hellish underworld
The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)consciousness in monsters · demonic babysitter horror
Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie (2018)consciousness in monsters · hellish-earth
DragonHeart: A New Beginning (2000)consciousness in monsters · dragon-kingdomSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Green Lantern: First Flight (2009)consciousness in aliens · corruption, law
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)consciousness in animals · faith, power
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)consciousness in aliens · law, power
Meet the Feebles (1989)consciousness in animals · corruption, power
Kantara - A Legend: Chapter 1 (2025)consciousness carried elsewhere · faith, power
Dashing Through the Snow (2023)consciousness carried elsewhere · corruption, faith
