Lady and the Tramp (2019)
Be loyal. Be brave. Be loved.
The love story between a pampered Cocker Spaniel named Lady and a streetwise mongrel named Tramp. Lady finds herself out on the street after her owners have a baby and is saved from a pack by Tramp, who tries to show her to live her life footloose and collar-free.
In Lady and the Tramp, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “canine suburbia”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing love, belonging, class, family, identity.
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.
Paddington (2014)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic bear in London
Look Who's Talking Now! (1993)consciousness in animals · talking-dog suburb
Shrek 2 (2004)consciousness in animals · fairy‑tale kingdom
The Secret Life of Pets (2016)consciousness in animals · pet metropolis
Bolt (2008)consciousness in animals · animal‑star world
Stuart Little (1999)consciousness in animals · mouse‑in‑human worldSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Aladdin (1992)consciousness carried elsewhere · class, identity
Shrek (2001)consciousness in monsters · class, identity
Young Frankenstein (1974)consciousness in the dead · class, identity
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)consciousness in monsters · family, identity
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)consciousness in aliens · family, identity
When Marnie Was There (2014)consciousness in the dead · belonging, family
