Captive State (2019)
10 years ago, they took our planet. Today, we take it back!
Nearly a decade after occupation by an extraterrestrial force, the lives of a Chicago neighborhood on both sides of the conflict are explored. In a working-class Chicago neighborhood occupied by an alien force for nine years, increased surveillance and the restriction of civil rights have given rise to an authoritarian system -- and dissent among the populace.
In Captive State, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “alien-occupied metropolis”. The story fights on E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing resistance, surveillance, authority.
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.
Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015)consciousness in aliens · alternate superhero dystopia
Doctor Strange (2016)consciousness in aliens · dimensional mystic realm
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)consciousness in aliens · heroic mythic conflict
District 9 (2009)consciousness in aliens · alien-refugee ghetto
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.
RoboCop (2014)consciousness in machines · authority, surveillance
RoboCop 2 (1990)consciousness in machines · authority, surveillance
Ultraviolet (2006)consciousness in monsters · authority, surveillance
Impostor (2001)consciousness in animals · authority, surveillance
The Lego Movie (2014)consciousness in objects · authority
The Lion King (1994)consciousness in animals · authority
