Movie Substrate · Film
The Shack (2017)
★ 7.5 · 2,239 ratings on TMDB
You're never as alone as you think.
A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.
DirectorStuart Hazeldine
The emergence reading
In The Shack, consciousness is carried by abstract concepts — a plane of “spiritual retreat”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing faith, grief, forgiveness, family, redemption.
↷ abstract conceptsUSfaithgriefforgivenessfamilyredemption
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.
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)consciousness in abstractions · golf mythic journey
Shazam! (2019)consciousness in abstractions · sin-embodied realm
The Seventh Seal (1957)consciousness in abstractions · medieval mortality stage
Riley's First Date? (2015)consciousness in abstractions · family home mindscape
The Book of Life (2014)consciousness in abstractions · mythic afterlife
Legend (1985)consciousness in abstractions · mythic forest realmSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)consciousness carried elsewhere · faith, family
Jack Frost (1998)consciousness in objects · family, grief
The Medium (2021)consciousness in the dead · faith, family
The Dark and the Wicked (2020)consciousness in monsters · faith, family
Annabelle (2014)consciousness in objects · faith, family
Hereditary (2018)consciousness in monsters · family, grief
