Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
The park is gone.
Three years after Jurassic World was destroyed, Isla Nublar now sits abandoned. When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.
In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “dinosaur‑rescue”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing exploitation, ethics, power, technology, environment.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (2017)E8/E9/E10 · environment, exploitation
Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog (2021)E8/E9/E10 · power, technology
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)E8/E9 · environment, technology
Jennifer's Body (2009)E8/E9 · exploitation, power
Bee Movie (2007)E8/E10 · environment, exploitation
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)E8/E9 · power, technologySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)E6/E12 · rare rung · exploitation, power
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994)E6/E11/E14 · rare rung · environment, technology
WALL·E (2008)E13/E14 · rare rung · environment, technology
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)E11/E14 · rare rung · power, technology
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)E6/E11 · rare rung · environment, technology
Them! (1954)E14 · rare rung · environment, technologyAlso 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.
Rampage (2018)alters at E4 · same rung · loose
Morgan (2016)alters at E4 · same rung · loose
Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)alters at E4 · same rung · loose
Ultraviolet (2006)alters at E4 · same rung · loose
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)alters at E4 · same rung · loose
Species III (2005)alters at E4 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Ratchet & Clank (2016)consciousness in animals · galactic frontier
The Lorax (2012)consciousness in animals · cartoonish eco‑metropolis
King Kong (1976)consciousness in animals · giant‑ape spectacle
Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)consciousness in animals · animal forest strike
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)consciousness in animals · toxic jungle world
Joe's Apartment (1996)consciousness in animals · cockroach apartmentSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)consciousness in monsters · environment, exploitation
Kantara - A Legend: Chapter 1 (2025)consciousness carried elsewhere · environment, exploitation
Ex Machina (2015)consciousness in machines · ethics, power
Victor Frankenstein (2015)consciousness in monsters · ethics, power
Space Sweepers (2021)consciousness in machines · exploitation, power
Jupiter Ascending (2015)consciousness in aliens · exploitation, power
