Movie Substrate · Film
The Little Mermaid (2018)
★ 5.0 · 861 ratings on TMDB
A new twist on the classic tail
A young reporter and his niece discover a beautiful and enchanting creature they believe to be the real little mermaid.
The emergence reading
In The Little Mermaid, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “mermaid circus”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing exploitation, belief, healing, magic.
↷ monsters and creaturesUSexploitationbeliefhealingmagic
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.
The Smurfs 2 (2013)consciousness in monsters · blue village
The Entity (1982)consciousness in monsters · invisible predator
Artemis Fowl (2020)consciousness in monsters · fairy underground civilization
A Boy Called Christmas (2021)consciousness in monsters · elf‑kingdom fantasy
Minions (2015)consciousness in monsters · minion quest
The Smurfs (2011)consciousness in monsters · blue creature metropolisSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Doctor Strange (2016)consciousness in aliens · magic
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)consciousness in animals · exploitation
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)consciousness in machines · exploitation
Shazam! (2019)consciousness in abstractions · magic
Kong: Skull Island (2017)consciousness in animals · exploitation
Cowboys & Aliens (2011)consciousness in aliens · exploitationSame people
Shared director or cast.
Out for Justice (1991)Gina Gershon
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)William Moseley
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)Shirley MacLaine
The Rock (1996)William Forsythe
Face/Off (1997)Gina Gershon
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)William Moseley