Movie Substrate · Film
Volver (2006)
★ 7.5 · 1,894 ratings on TMDB
Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.
DirectorPedro Almodóvar
The emergence reading
In Volver, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “magical realist village”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing family, memory, death, guilt, superstition.
↷ the deadESfamilymemorydeathguiltsuperstition
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.
Coco (2017)consciousness in the dead · afterlife of memory
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)consciousness in the dead · the further
Lake Mungo (2009)consciousness in the dead · haunted suburbia
The Ring Two (2005)consciousness in the dead · cursed video horror
Poltergeist (1982)consciousness in the dead · suburban haunting
Talk to Me (2023)consciousness in the dead · hand-possession ritualSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Monster House (2006)consciousness in objects · death, family
Finding Dory (2016)consciousness in animals · family, memory
It Chapter Two (2019)consciousness in monsters · guilt, memory
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)consciousness in objects · family, memory
A Monster Calls (2016)consciousness in monsters · death, family
Riley's First Date? (2015)consciousness in abstractions · family, memorySame people
Shared director or cast.
Broken Embraces (2009)dir. Pedro Almodóvar
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)dir. Pedro Almodóvar
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)dir. Pedro Almodóvar
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)Penélope Cruz
Vanilla Sky (2001)Penélope Cruz
Apocalypto (2006)María Isabel Díaz Lago