Sicko (2007)
This might hurt a little.
A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States whose main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s lives. "The more people you deny health insurance, the more money we make" is the business model for health care providers in America.
In Sicko, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “rat kitchen”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, identity, class.
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.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Shrek 2 (2004)consciousness in animals · fairy‑tale kingdom
Paddington (2014)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic bear in London
The Prince and the Pauper (1990)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic animal kingdom
Wicked (2024)consciousness in animals · magical oz
The Jungle Book (2016)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic jungle
The Little Mermaid (1989)consciousness in animals · undersea kingdomSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)consciousness in machines · class, identity
Young Frankenstein (1974)consciousness in the dead · class, identity
The Boxtrolls (2014)consciousness in monsters · class, identity
Shrek (2001)consciousness in monsters · class, identity
Barbie Fairytopia: Mermaidia (2006)consciousness carried elsewhere · class, identity
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)consciousness in machines · identity, prejudice
