Serenity (2019)
On Plymouth Island, no one ever dies… unless you break the rules
The quiet life of Baker Dill, a fishing boat captain who lives on the isolated Plymouth Island, where he spends his days obsessed with capturing an elusive tuna while fighting his personal demons, is interrupted when someone from his past comes to him searching for help.
In Serenity, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “game island simulation”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing grief, control, memory, agency, 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 bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Dark City (1998)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Don't Worry Darling (2022)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Suzume (2022)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Hello World (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Oblivion (2013)consciousness in machines · post‑apocalyptic AI colony
Ghost in the Shell (1995)consciousness in machines · cybernetic future
M3GAN (2022)consciousness in machines · sentient-toy horror
Automata (2014)consciousness in machines · post‑apocalyptic robot city
Outside the Wire (2021)consciousness in machines · android battlefield
BURN·E (2008)consciousness in machines · repair‑robot hullscapeSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Lego Movie (2014)consciousness in objects · authority, control
Men in Black II (2002)consciousness in aliens · agency, memory
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)consciousness in objects · authority, memory
The Host (2013)consciousness in aliens · control, memory
Just Like Heaven (2005)consciousness in the dead · grief, memory
Dream House (2011)consciousness in the dead · grief, memory
