Movie Substrate · Film
Peter Rabbit (2018)
★ 6.7 · 1,908 ratings on TMDB
Who said the countryside was peaceful?
Peter Rabbit's feud with Mr. McGregor escalates to greater heights than ever before as they rival for the affections of the warm-hearted animal lover who lives next door.
DirectorWill Gluck
The emergence reading
In Peter Rabbit, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic countryside”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, property, family, greed, stewardship.
↷ animalsUSprejudicepropertyfamilygreedstewardship
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996)E8/E9/E10 · family, prejudice
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022)E8/E9/E10 · family, prejudice
Hitpig! (2024)E8/E9/E10 · family, prejudice
Ice Age (2002)E8/E9 · family, prejudice
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998)E9/E10 · family, prejudice
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)E8/E9 · greed, prejudiceSame 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.
Over the Hedge (2006)consciousness in animals · suburban animal frontier
Paddington (2014)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic bear in London
How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019)consciousness in animals · dragon-kin village
Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic dog family
The Wolfman (2010)consciousness in animals · werewolf curse
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)consciousness in animals · mutant turtle citySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)consciousness in monsters · family, greed
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)consciousness in monsters · family, prejudice
Lilo & Stitch (2025)consciousness in aliens · family, prejudice
Fido (2006)consciousness in the dead · family, prejudice
The Borrowers (1997)consciousness carried elsewhere · prejudice, property
Beetlejuice (1988)consciousness in the dead · family, property
