Movie Substrate · Film
Mac and Me (1988)
★ 4.4 · 273 ratings on TMDB
Eric's new in the neighborhood. Mac's new on the planet.
A Mysterious Alien Creature (MAC) escaping from nefarious NASA agents, is befriended by a young boy in a wheelchair. Together, they try to find MAC's family from whom he has been separated.
DirectorStewart Raffill
The emergence reading
In Mac and Me, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “alien suburbia”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing otherness, family, citizenship, government.
↷ aliensUSothernessfamilycitizenshipgovernment
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.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)consciousness in aliens · suburban alien encounter
Lilo & Stitch (2002)consciousness in aliens · ohana alien adoption
Aliens in the Attic (2009)consciousness in aliens · attic invasion
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005)consciousness in aliens · Hawaiian alien family
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)consciousness in aliens · cosmic odyssey
Stitch! The Movie (2003)consciousness in aliens · ohana galaxySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000)consciousness in monsters · family, otherness
The Wolfman (2010)consciousness in animals · family, otherness
Nightborn (2026)consciousness in monsters · family, otherness
A Haunted House 2 (2014)consciousness in objects · family, otherness
The Water Horse (2007)consciousness in animals · family, otherness
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)consciousness carried elsewhere · family
