Welcome to Marwen (2018)
You can't put this hero in a box.
When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp and wipes away all memories, no one expected recovery. Putting together pieces from his old and new life, Mark meticulously creates a wondrous town named Marwen where he can heal and be heroic. As he builds an astonishing art installation — a testament to the most powerful women he knows — through his fantasy world, he draws strength to triumph in the real one.
In Welcome to Marwen, consciousness is carried by toys and objects — a plane of “toy-doll battlefield”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing trauma, addiction, memory, identity, fantasy.
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.
Night at the Museum (2006)consciousness in objects · animated museum
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)consciousness in objects · animated toy realm
Toy Story 3 (2010)consciousness in objects · toy shelf world
Toy Story (1995)consciousness in objects · toy-shelf world
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)consciousness in objects · mythic feudal Japan
Once Upon a Snowman (2020)consciousness in objects · snowman odysseySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Ring 0 (2000)consciousness in the dead · identity, memory
Spirited Away (2001)consciousness in the dead · identity, memory
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)consciousness in machines · identity, memory
Oblivion (2013)consciousness in machines · identity, memory
Finding Dory (2016)consciousness in animals · identity, memory
The Host (2013)consciousness in aliens · identity, memory
