Dolittle (2020)
He's just not a people person.
After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and discovers wondrous creatures.
In Dolittle, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “animal-voice Victorian”. The story fights on E8/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing communication, authority, quest.
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.
Smallfoot (2018)consciousness in animals · mountain sanctuary
Valiant (2005)consciousness in animals · pigeon warfront
Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004)consciousness in animals · animal musketeer France
DragonHeart (1996)consciousness in animals · mythic medieval kingdom
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)consciousness in animals · ape uprising
The Little Mermaid (1989)consciousness in animals · undersea kingdomSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)consciousness in aliens · authority, communication
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)consciousness carried elsewhere · authority
The Suicide Squad (2021)consciousness in aliens · authority
Maleficent (2014)consciousness in monsters · authority
Eagle Eye (2008)consciousness in machines · authority
Godzilla Minus One (2023)consciousness in monsters · authority
