Disenchanted (2022)
Happily never after.
Disillusioned with life in the city, feeling out of place in suburbia, and frustrated that her happily ever after hasn’t been so easy to find, Giselle turns to the magic of Andalasia for help. Accidentally transforming the entire town into a real-life fairy tale and placing her family’s future happiness in jeopardy, she must race against time to reverse the spell and determine what happily ever after truly means to her and her family.
In Disenchanted, consciousness is carried by another substrate — a plane of “fairy‑tale suburbia”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing family, identity, memory, power, magic.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie (2012)E8/E9/E10 · family, identity
Return to Halloweentown (2006)E8/E9/E10 · family, magic
Barbie as the Island Princess (2007)E8/E9/E10 · family, identity
Encanto (2021)E8/E9 · family, identity
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)E8/E10 · identity, memory
Anastasia (1997)E8/E9 · identity, memorySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
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.
Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie (2009)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Doctor Strange (2016)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Avengers: Endgame (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)alters at E0 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Aladdin (1992)consciousness carried elsewhere · Arabian fantasy kingdom
Twin Peaks (1989)consciousness carried elsewhere · mystic small‑town
Call Me Chihiro (2023)consciousness carried elsewhere · spirit-bathhouse
Hercules (1997)consciousness carried elsewhere · mythic olympus
Over the Moon (2020)consciousness carried elsewhere · lunar mythic realm
The Christmas Chronicles (2018)consciousness carried elsewhere · magical Christmas adventureSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Shazam! (2019)consciousness in abstractions · family, identity
Finding Dory (2016)consciousness in animals · family, identity
The Lion King (1994)consciousness in animals · family, identity
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)consciousness in objects · family, identity
Barbie in A Mermaid Tale (2010)consciousness in monsters · identity, magic
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)consciousness in aliens · family, identity
