As the Gods Will (2014)
Oh my God, please return my tedious everyday.
High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. Suddenly, he and his classmates are forced to play deadly children's games and facing terrifying creatures from a talking Daruma doll to a sharp-clawed lucky cat.
In As the Gods Will, consciousness is carried by toys and objects — a plane of “death‑game arena”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing control, authority, survival, mortality, faith.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Battle Royale (2000)E8/E10 · authority, control
Soldier (1998)E8/E10 · authority, control
Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010)E8/E10 · authority, faith
Night of the Living Dead (2026)E8/E10 · authority, mortality
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)E8 · authority, control
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)E8 · authority, faithSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Species (1995)E4/E11/E14 · rare rung · control, survival
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)E9/E14 · rare rung · authority, survival
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)E12/E14 · rare rung · authority, mortality
WarGames (1983)E12/E14 · rare rung · authority, control
Ooops! Noah Is Gone... (2015)E6/E9 · rare rung · authority, survival
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013)E11/E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, survivalAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Lego Movie (2014)consciousness in objects · brick world
Cult of Chucky (2017)consciousness in objects · possessed doll horror
The Jack in the Box (2019)consciousness in objects · cursed toy museum
Puppetmaster (1989)consciousness in objects · animated puppet inn
Toy Story 2 (1999)consciousness in objects · toy-shelf world
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)consciousness in objects · magical museumSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Truth or Dare (2018)consciousness in monsters · control, mortality
Automata (2014)consciousness in machines · authority, control
Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie (2018)consciousness in monsters · authority, faith
Gantz (2010)consciousness in the dead · control, mortality
Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days (2018)consciousness in the dead · authority, faith
Bigbug (2022)consciousness in machines · authority, control
