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Eli (2019)

★ 6.0 · 1,502 ratings on TMDB
Eli poster★ 6.0

A boy named Eli with a rare autoimmune disorder is confined to a special experimental clinic for his treatment. He soon begins experiencing supernatural forces, turning the supposedly safe facility into a haunted prison for him and his fellow patients.

DirectorCiarán Foy
CastAustin Foxx, Charlie Shotwell, Deneen Tyler, Katia Gomez, Kelly Reilly, Lili Taylor
GenresHorror
The emergence reading

In Eli, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “demonic medical horror”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, religion, family, power, horror.

↷ monsters and creaturesUSidentityreligionfamilypowerhorror
Also inConsciousness hiding in monstersFilms about familyFilms about identityFilms that move consciousness off the human
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Also hides consciousness here

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Same subject, different mask

The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)consciousness in aliens · family, identityThe Lion King (1994)consciousness in animals · family, identityShazam! (2019)consciousness in abstractions · family, identityThe Golden Compass (2007)consciousness in animals · identity, powerDisenchanted (2022)consciousness carried elsewhere · family, identityThe Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)consciousness in objects · family, identity

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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