Barbie (2023)
She's everything. He's just Ken.
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.
In Barbie, consciousness is carried by toys and objects — a plane of “doll society”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing gender, identity, prejudice, patriarchy, consumerism.
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.
UglyDolls (2019)consciousness in objects · toy society
Barbie: Spy Squad (2016)consciousness in objects · toy-society
Toy Story 2 (1999)consciousness in objects · toy-shelf world
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)consciousness in objects · toy-brick multiverse
The Happytime Murders (2018)consciousness in objects · puppet noir
Toy Story (1995)consciousness in objects · toy-shelf worldSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Jennifer's Body (2009)consciousness in animals · gender, identity
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)consciousness in machines · identity, prejudice
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)consciousness in monsters · identity, prejudice
The Little Mermaid (1989)consciousness in animals · identity, prejudice
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)consciousness in machines · identity, prejudice
Captain Marvel (2019)consciousness in aliens · identity, prejudice
