Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
Be bold. Be brave. Be epic.
Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seeking vengeance, Kubo is forced to go on a quest to solve the mystery of his fallen samurai father and his mystical weaponry, as well as discover his own magical powers.
In Kubo and the Two Strings, consciousness is carried by toys and objects — a plane of “mythic feudal Japan”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing memory, storytelling, family, tradition, identity.
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.
Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl (2022)consciousness in objects · magical family house
Toy Story 3 (2010)consciousness in objects · toy shelf world
Toy Story (1995)consciousness in objects · toy-shelf world
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)consciousness in objects · lego metropolis
Monster House (2006)consciousness in objects · haunted house
Pinocchio (1940)consciousness in objects · living-toy worldSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Umma (2022)consciousness in the dead · family, identity
Coco (2017)consciousness in the dead · family, memory
Finding Dory (2016)consciousness in animals · family, identity
Brave (2012)consciousness in animals · family, identity
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)consciousness in monsters · family, identity
The Grinch (2018)consciousness in monsters · family, identitySame people
Shared director or cast.
