Life-Size (2000)
She was a perfect doll. Now she's the real thing.
Sad and lonely after the death of her mother, Casey would do anything to see her again. But when a series of mystic mishaps mistakenly brings her fashion doll “Eve” to life instead, it changes Casey’s world forever!
In Life-Size, consciousness is carried by toys and objects — a plane of “toy-come-to-life”. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, grief, consumerism, belonging.
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.
Toy Story 4 (2019)consciousness in objects · toy-shelf world
Toy Story (1995)consciousness in objects · toy-shelf world
Toy Story 2 (1999)consciousness in objects · toy-shelf world
Toy Story 3 (2010)consciousness in objects · toy shelf world
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)consciousness in objects · toy-brick multiverse
UglyDolls (2019)consciousness in objects · toy societySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
When Marnie Was There (2014)consciousness in the dead · belonging, grief
Boundin' (2003)consciousness in animals · belonging, grief
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)consciousness in aliens · belonging, identity
Minions (2015)consciousness in monsters · belonging, identity
Luca (2021)consciousness in monsters · belonging, identity
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)consciousness in machines · belonging, identity
