Movie Substrate · Film
Attraction (2017)
★ 6.7 · 903 ratings on TMDB
The Earth is for Humans
After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.
DirectorFyodor Bondarchuk
The emergence reading
In Attraction, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “alien‑crash Moscow”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing love, water, authority, scarcity.
↷ aliensRUlovewaterauthorityscarcity
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.
Mars Needs Moms (2011)consciousness in aliens · martian extraction
Superman II (1980)consciousness in aliens · alien-superhero Earth
Doctor Strange (2016)consciousness in aliens · dimensional mystic realm
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)consciousness in aliens · heroic mythic conflict
Star Trek (2009)consciousness in aliens · interstellar federation
Lilo & Stitch (2002)consciousness in aliens · ohana alien adoptionSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Little Mermaid (1989)consciousness in animals · authority, love
Shrek Forever After (2010)consciousness in animals · authority, love
The Little Mermaid (2023)consciousness in monsters · authority, love
Splash (1984)consciousness in monsters · authority, love
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018)consciousness in the dead · authority, love
Aladdin (1992)consciousness carried elsewhere · love
