Rio (2011)
1 out of every 8 Americans is afraid of flying. Most of them don't have feathers.
Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel, a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kidnap Blu and Jewel, but the pair soon escape and begin a perilous adventure back to freedom -- and Linda.
In Rio, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “feathered adventure”. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, freedom, love, conservation, culture.
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.
Shark Bait (2006)consciousness in animals · reef metropolis
Madagascar (2005)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic animal world
Porco Rosso (1992)consciousness in animals · pig-ace sky
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic garden
Saludos Amigos (1942)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic Latin America
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.
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)consciousness in monsters · culture, identity
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)consciousness in aliens · culture, identity
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)consciousness in aliens · culture, identity
Play It Again, Sam (1972)consciousness in the dead · culture, identity
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)consciousness in monsters · culture, identity
Short Circuit (1986)consciousness in machines · freedom, identity
