Air Doll (2009)
A very "human" story.
A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with Junichi. She starts to date Junichi and gets a job at the same store where he works. Everything seems to be going perfectly for her until something unexpected happens.
In Air Doll, consciousness is carried by toys and objects — a plane of “air doll”. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, loneliness, mortality, love.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Destino (2003)consciousness in objects · surreal dreamscape
Toy Story 2 (1999)consciousness in objects · toy-shelf world
Barbie in the Nutcracker (2001)consciousness in objects · toy-kingdom adventure
Cult of Chucky (2017)consciousness in objects · possessed doll horror
Mannequin (1987)consciousness in objects · store-window romance
Once Upon a Snowman (2020)consciousness in objects · snowman odysseySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Her (2013)consciousness in machines · identity, loneliness
Bicentennial Man (1999)consciousness in machines · identity, love
The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)consciousness in animals · identity, love
Wings of Desire (1987)consciousness carried elsewhere · loneliness, love
Every Day (2018)consciousness in the dead · identity, love
Wish Dragon (2021)consciousness in monsters · identity, love
