Movie Substrate · Film
Paper Man (2009)
★ 6.3 · 370 ratings on TMDB
A little imagination goes a long way
A coming-of-middle-age comedy that chronicles the unlikely friendship between failed author Richard Dunne and a Long Island teen who teaches him a thing or two about growing up, all under the disapproving eye of his long-suffering wife and his imaginary Superhero friend.
The emergence reading
In Paper Man, consciousness is carried by abstract concepts — a plane of “mindscape”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing imagination, loneliness, family.
↷ abstract conceptsUSimaginationlonelinessfamily
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 Shack (2017)consciousness in abstractions · spiritual retreat
Riley's First Date? (2015)consciousness in abstractions · family home mindscape
The Book of Life (2014)consciousness in abstractions · mythic afterlife
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)consciousness in abstractions · imaginarium
Drop Dead Fred (1991)consciousness in abstractions · imaginary friend realmSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
A Monster Calls (2016)consciousness in monsters · family, imagination
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)consciousness in objects · family, imagination
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl (2005)consciousness in monsters · family, imagination
The Cat in the Hat (2003)consciousness in animals · family, imagination
Finding Nemo (2003)consciousness in animals · family
Coco (2017)consciousness in the dead · family
