Sausage Party (2016)
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Hot dog Frank leads a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become chosen to leave the grocery store.
In Sausage Party, consciousness is carried by another substrate — a plane of “animated grocery store”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, religion, exploitation.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)E8/E9/E10 · exploitation, prejudice
The Neon Demon (2016)E8/E9/E10 · exploitation, prejudice
Dogville (2003)E8/E9/E10 · exploitation, prejudice
Brimstone (2016)E8/E9/E10 · prejudice, religion
Manderlay (2005)E8/E9/E10 · exploitation, prejudice
The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011)E8/E9/E10 · prejudice, religionSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Avatar (2009)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Bee Movie (2007)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
The Happytime Murders (2018)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Franklyn (2008)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Us (2019)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorousAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Elemental (2023)consciousness carried elsewhere · elemental metropolis
Secret of the Wings (2012)consciousness carried elsewhere · seasonal fairy realm
Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy (2014)consciousness carried elsewhere · fairy dust realm
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast (2014)consciousness carried elsewhere · pixie hollow
Cool World (1992)consciousness carried elsewhere · cartoon-reality hybrid
The Devil Conspiracy (2023)consciousness carried elsewhere · celestial war on earthSame 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 · exploitation, prejudice
George of the Jungle (1997)consciousness in animals · exploitation, prejudice
The Sea Beast (2022)consciousness in monsters · exploitation, prejudice
A Return to Salem's Lot (1987)consciousness in the dead · prejudice, religion
Pete's Dragon (1977)consciousness in monsters · exploitation, prejudice
District 9 (2009)consciousness in aliens · exploitation, prejudice
