Pleasantville (1998)
Nothing is as simple as black and white.
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.
In Pleasantville, consciousness is carried by abstract concepts — a plane of “tv sitcom world”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, conformity, tradition, change, censorship.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)E8/E9/E10 · prejudice, tradition
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)E8/E9/E10 · prejudice, tradition
Cinderella (1950)E8/E9/E10 · prejudice, tradition
Red Riding Hood (2011)E8/E9/E10 · prejudice, tradition
47 Ronin (2013)E8/E9/E10 · prejudice, tradition
The Fox and the Hound (1981)E8/E9/E10 · prejudice, traditionAlso 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.
Coco (2017)alters at E9 · same rung · rigorous
Insurgent (2015)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
Isn't It Romantic (2019)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
Candyman (2021)alters at E9 · same rung · rigorous
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
The School for Good and Evil (2022)alters at E9 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)consciousness in abstractions · golf mythic journey
Jojo Rabbit (2019)consciousness in abstractions · imagined-hate friend
The Book of Life (2014)consciousness in abstractions · mythic afterlife
Day & Night (2010)consciousness in abstractions · day‑night duality
Shazam! (2019)consciousness in abstractions · sin-embodied realm
Soul (2020)consciousness in abstractions · soul‑prep afterlifeSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)consciousness in monsters · prejudice, tradition
The Jungle Book (2016)consciousness in animals · prejudice, tradition
Ferdinand (2017)consciousness in animals · prejudice, tradition
Elemental (2023)consciousness carried elsewhere · prejudice, tradition
The Sea Beast (2022)consciousness in monsters · prejudice, tradition
Secret of the Wings (2012)consciousness carried elsewhere · prejudice, tradition
