Jojo Rabbit (2019)
An anti-hate satire.
Jojo, a lonely German boy during World War II has his world shaken when he learns that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. Influenced by a buffoonish imaginary version of Adolf Hitler, he begins to question his beliefs and confront the conflict between propaganda and his own humanity.
In Jojo Rabbit, consciousness is carried by abstract concepts — a plane of “imagined-hate friend”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, identity, war.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Gulliver's Travels (2010)E8/E9 · identity, prejudice
The Tin Drum (1979)E8/E9 · identity, prejudice
Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa (2005)E8 · identity, prejudice
True Legend (2010)E8 · identity, prejudice
Black Panther (2018)E8/E9 · identity, prejudice
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)E8/E9 · identity, prejudiceSame 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.
Day & Night (2010)consciousness in abstractions · day‑night duality
Shazam! (2019)consciousness in abstractions · sin-embodied realm
Inside Out 2 (2024)consciousness in abstractions · personified mindscape
Pleasantville (1998)consciousness in abstractions · tv sitcom world
The Book of Life (2014)consciousness in abstractions · mythic afterlife
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)consciousness in abstractions · golf mythic journeySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Captain Marvel (2019)consciousness in aliens · identity, prejudice
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)consciousness in animals · identity, prejudice
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)consciousness in animals · identity, prejudice
No Game No Life: Zero (2017)consciousness in machines · identity, prejudice
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)consciousness carried elsewhere · identity, prejudice
Cars (2006)consciousness in machines · identity, prejudice
