Movie Substrate · Film
Cars 2 (2011)
★ 6.2 · 8,436 ratings on TMDB
The Mission Begins.
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.
DirectorJohn Lasseter
The emergence reading
In Cars 2, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “car world”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing corporate, environment, espionage.
↷ machinesUScorporateenvironmentespionage
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.
Chappie (2015)consciousness in machines · robotic police dystopia
Alien Resurrection (1997)consciousness in machines · cloned‑android starship
RoboCop (1987)consciousness in machines · corporate dystopia
Upgrade (2018)consciousness in machines · cybernetic augmentation
Alien: Romulus (2024)consciousness in machines · corporate mining outpost
Replicas (2018)consciousness in machines · mind‑upload dystopiaSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)consciousness in monsters · corporate, environment
Rampage (2018)consciousness in animals · corporate, environment
Furry Vengeance (2010)consciousness in animals · corporate, environment
Spirited Away (2001)consciousness in the dead · environment
Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)consciousness in monsters · environment
Meet Joe Black (1998)consciousness in abstractions · corporate
