Movie Substrate · Film
The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)
★ 8.2 · 1,667 ratings on TMDB
Meet the dog who will show the world how to be human.
A family dog – with a near-human soul and a philosopher's mind – evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, a race-car driver.
DirectorSimon Curtis
The emergence reading
In The Art of Racing in the Rain, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “dog narrator”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing family, grief, mortality, identity, love.
↷ animalsUSfamilygriefmortalityidentitylove
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.
A Dog's Journey (2019)consciousness in animals · canine reincarnation saga
Lamb (2021)consciousness in animals · sheep‑human farm
Lady and the Tramp (2019)consciousness in animals · canine suburbia
Brother Bear 2 (2006)consciousness in animals · spirit-bear realm
Look Who's Talking Now! (1993)consciousness in animals · talking-dog suburb
Song of the Sea (2014)consciousness in animals · mythic Irish coastal worldSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Book of Life (2014)consciousness in abstractions · family, identity
Vamps (2012)consciousness in the dead · identity, love
Corpse Bride (2005)consciousness in the dead · grief, love
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)consciousness in monsters · family, love
Trolls (2016)consciousness in monsters · grief, identity
Bicentennial Man (1999)consciousness in machines · identity, love
