Movie Substrate · Film
The Emoji Movie (2017)
★ 5.4 · 3,305 ratings on TMDB
An adventure beyond words.
Gene, a multi-expressional emoji, sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji.
DirectorTony Leondis
The emergence reading
In The Emoji Movie, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “emoji smartphone world”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, control, technology, consumerism, media.
↷ machinesUSidentitycontroltechnologyconsumerismmedia
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.
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)consciousness in machines · digital arcade internet
The Matrix (1999)consciousness in machines · simulated reality
Oblivion (2013)consciousness in machines · post‑apocalyptic AI colony
Ghost in the Shell (1995)consciousness in machines · cybernetic future
Tron (1982)consciousness in machines · digital grid
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)consciousness in machines · virtual‑reality gameSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)consciousness in animals · control, identity
They Live (1988)consciousness in aliens · consumerism, control
Morbius (2022)consciousness in monsters · control, identity
Bedazzled (2000)consciousness in monsters · control, identity
The Signal (2014)consciousness in aliens · control, identity
The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story (2023)consciousness in objects · consumerism, identity
