Movie Substrate · Film
Riley's First Date? (2015)
★ 7.2 · 1,106 ratings on TMDB
Riley, now 12, who is hanging out with her parents at home when potential trouble comes knocking. Mom's and Dad's Emotions find themselves forced to deal with Riley going on her first "date."
DirectorJosh Cooley
The emergence reading
In Riley's First Date?, consciousness is carried by abstract concepts — a plane of “family home mindscape”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing family, communication, generational, memory, emotion.
↷ abstract conceptsUSfamilycommunicationgenerationalmemoryemotion
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.
Shazam! (2019)consciousness in abstractions · sin-embodied realm
The Book of Life (2014)consciousness in abstractions · mythic afterlife
The Shack (2017)consciousness in abstractions · spiritual retreat
Paper Man (2009)consciousness in abstractions · mindscape
The Imaginary (2023)consciousness in abstractions · imaginary realm
Meet Joe Black (1998)consciousness in abstractions · personified deathSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Coco (2017)consciousness in the dead · family, memory
Finding Dory (2016)consciousness in animals · family, memory
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)consciousness in the dead · family, memory
Monster House (2006)consciousness in objects · family, memory
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)consciousness in objects · family, memory
How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019)consciousness in animals · family, memory
