Movie Substrate · Film
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
★ 5.1 · 1,854 ratings on TMDB
Be a warrior
After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.
DirectorAva DuVernay
The emergence reading
In A Wrinkle in Time, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “cosmic odyssey”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, conformity, love, family, otherness.
↷ aliensUSidentityconformitylovefamilyotherness
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Tangled (2010)E8/E9 · family, identity
Edward Scissorhands (1990)E8/E9 · conformity, love
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)E8/E9 · family, identity
The Boss Baby (2017)E8/E9 · family, identity
Lady and the Tramp (1955)E8/E9 · family, identity
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)E8/E9 · family, identitySame 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.
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005)consciousness in aliens · Hawaiian alien family
Stitch! The Movie (2003)consciousness in aliens · ohana galaxy
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)consciousness in aliens · alien-visit romance
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)consciousness in aliens · pod invasion
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)consciousness in aliens · cosmic crew
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.
Shrek 3-D (2004)consciousness in monsters · family, identity
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)consciousness in monsters · family, love
Look Who's Talking Now! (1993)consciousness in animals · family, identity
Brother Bear 2 (2006)consciousness in animals · family, identity
The Book of Life (2014)consciousness in abstractions · family, identity
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)consciousness carried elsewhere · family, identity
