Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
New places. New faces. Next level.
As the gang return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown and unexplored in order to escape the world’s most dangerous game.
In Jumanji: The Next Level, consciousness is carried by another substrate — a plane of “video‑game adventure”. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, technology, mortality, survival, purpose.
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.
The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar (2016)E7/E9 · rare rung · identity, survival
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)E7/E10 · rare rung · survival, technology
Outlander (2008)E6/E9/E10 · rare rung · survival, technology
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)E13/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)E9/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)E12/E14 · rare rung · mortality, technologyAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Man with Two Brains (1983)consciousness carried elsewhere · brain‑jar romance
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013)consciousness carried elsewhere · moon‑earth myth
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)consciousness carried elsewhere · genetic lab comedy
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022)consciousness carried elsewhere · miniature shell world
Dog Man (2025)consciousness carried elsewhere · anthropomorphic hybrid city
Big Fish & Begonia (2016)consciousness carried elsewhere · mystical underworldSame 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. 3 (2023)consciousness in animals · identity, mortality
Transformers (2007)consciousness in machines · identity, survival
TRON: Ares (2025)consciousness in machines · identity, mortality
Underworld: Awakening (2012)consciousness in monsters · identity, survival
Morbius (2022)consciousness in monsters · identity, mortality
Leo (2023)consciousness in animals · identity, mortality
