Movie Substrate · Film
Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992)
★ 6.3 · 620 ratings on TMDB
The world's most famous cat and mouse in their first motion picture.
The popular cartoon cat and mouse are thrown into a feature film. The story has the twosome trying to help an orphan girl who is being berated and exploited by a greedy guardian.
DirectorPhil Roman
The emergence reading
In Tom and Jerry: The Movie, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic animal world”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing friendship, greed, survival.
↷ animalsUSfriendshipgreedsurvival
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists (1996)E8/E9 · friendship, survival
Chill Out, Scooby-Doo! (2007)E8/E9 · friendship, greed
Mickey and the Beanstalk (1947)E8/E9 · greed, survival
Flow (2024)E8 · friendship, survival
Deep Blue Sea (1999)E8 · greed, survival
Tom and Jerry: Snowman's Land (2022)E8 · friendship, survivalAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Kangaroo Jack (2003)consciousness in animals · outback chase
Puss in Boots (2011)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic adventure
Scooby-Doo (2002)consciousness in animals · haunted resort
Over the Hedge (2006)consciousness in animals · suburban animal frontier
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic ocean city
Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare (2010)consciousness in animals · talking-animal mystery campSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)consciousness carried elsewhere · friendship, survival
Ghost Ship (2002)consciousness in the dead · greed, survival
Leprechaun (1993)consciousness in monsters · greed, survival
Leprechaun Returns (2018)consciousness in monsters · greed, survival
Critters 3 (1991)consciousness in aliens · greed, survival
Do Not Enter (2026)consciousness in the dead · greed, survival
