Ink (2009)
dreams
Invisible forces exert power over us in our sleep. A mercenary named Ink, on a literal nightmare mission, captures the spirit of 8-year-old Emma in the dream world. To save her, the dream-givers marshal all their resources, focusing on saving the soul of Emma's tragically broken father.
In Ink, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “dreamworld afterlife”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing afterlife, grief, memory.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
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.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Others (2001)consciousness in the dead · haunted afterlife house
Lake Mungo (2009)consciousness in the dead · haunted suburbia
Just Like Heaven (2005)consciousness in the dead · afterlife apartment
Personal Shopper (2016)consciousness in the dead · haunted paris
When Marnie Was There (2014)consciousness in the dead · spirit-heritage
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)consciousness in the dead · spectral romance counselingSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Babadook (2014)consciousness in monsters · grief, memory
Monster House (2006)consciousness in objects · grief, memory
IF (2024)consciousness in monsters · grief, memory
Solaris (1972)consciousness in aliens · grief, memory
Penguin Highway (2018)consciousness carried elsewhere · grief, memory
Solaris (2002)consciousness in aliens · grief, memory