Annette (2021)
As dangerous, as intense, as love.
In present-day Los Angeles, controversial stand-up comedian Henry McHenry and internationally renowned opera singer Ann Defrasnoux form the façade of a happy couple in the spotlight. Ann gives birth to a baby girl named Annette, who possesses an exceptional gift that will change all of their lives forever.
In Annette, consciousness is carried by toys and objects — a plane of “puppet family drama”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing family, abuse, celebrity, revenge, music.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same 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.
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)consciousness in objects · wartime puppet Italy
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)consciousness in objects · lego metropolis
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)consciousness in objects · animated toy realm
Curse of Chucky (2013)consciousness in objects · possessed doll horror
Christopher Robin (2018)consciousness in objects · toy-wood reality
Muppets Most Wanted (2014)consciousness in objects · puppet stageSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Aristocats (1970)consciousness in animals · family, music
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (2008)consciousness in aliens · family, music
Her Private Hell (2026)consciousness in the dead · family, revenge
Coco (2017)consciousness in the dead · family, music
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)consciousness in animals · family, music
Jaws: The Revenge (1987)consciousness in monsters · family, revenge
