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Yogi Bear (2010)
★ 5.6 · 937 ratings on TMDB
Life's a pic-a-nic.
A documentary filmmaker travels to Jellystone Park to shoot a project and soon crosses paths with Yogi Bear, his sidekick Boo-Boo, and Ranger Smith.
DirectorEric Brevig
The emergence reading
In Yogi Bear, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic park”. The story fights on E7/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing environment, corruption, politics, conservation.
↷ animalsNZenvironmentcorruptionpoliticsconservation
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
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Pom Poko (1994)E7 · rare rung · environment
The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar (2016)E7 · rare rung · environment
Flow (2024)E7 · rare rung · environmentSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Don't Look Up (2021)E14 · rare rung · environment, politics
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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)E8/E12 · rare rung · environment, politics
Hail, Caesar! (2016)E9/E11 · corruption, politics
C.H.U.D. (1984)E8/E11 · corruption, environment
Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997)E8/E9 · conservation, environmentAlso hides consciousness here
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Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon (2021)consciousness in animals · spirit jungle
Princess Mononoke (1997)consciousness in animals · forest‑industrial clash
Rio 2 (2014)consciousness in animals · amazon bird sanctuary
Ponyo (2008)consciousness in animals · magical ocean townSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)consciousness carried elsewhere · conservation, environment
Frozen II (2019)consciousness in monsters · environment
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)consciousness in monsters · environment
Roger & Me (1989)consciousness carried elsewhere · environment
Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might (1990)consciousness in aliens · environment
The Suicide Squad (2021)consciousness in aliens · corruption
