Movie Substrate · Film
Sing (2016)
★ 7.1 · 8,403 ratings on TMDB
Auditions begin.
A koala named Buster recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theater by hosting a singing competition.
DirectorGarth Jennings
The emergence reading
In Sing, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “animal metropolis”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing performance, ambition, fear, economics, community.
↷ animalsUSperformanceambitionfeareconomicscommunity
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.
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic circus
The Secret Life of Pets (2016)consciousness in animals · pet metropolis
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)consciousness in animals · prehistoric animal herd
Chicken Little (2005)consciousness in animals · animal town
Surf's Up (2007)consciousness in animals · penguin surf world
Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic forestSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Partly Cloudy (2009)consciousness carried elsewhere · community, fear
The Watch (2012)consciousness in aliens · community, fear
Planes (2013)consciousness in machines · ambition, fear
Sleepwalkers (1992)consciousness in monsters · community, fear
Needful Things (1993)consciousness in monsters · community, fear
Village of the Damned (1995)consciousness in aliens · community, fear
