Movie Substrate · Film
A Close Shave (1996)
★ 7.6 · 924 ratings on TMDB
A cracking wacky adventure.
Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.
The emergence reading
In A Close Shave, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic village”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, crime, friendship.
↷ animalsGBtechnologycrimefriendship
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.
Vengeance: A Love Story (2017)consciousness in animals · animal crime city
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic animal world
Kangaroo Jack (2003)consciousness in animals · outback chase
Regular Show: The Movie (2015)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic park
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)consciousness in animals · dinosaur‑rescue
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)consciousness in animals · cartoon‑serververseSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Chappie (2015)consciousness in machines · crime, technology
Ron's Gone Wrong (2021)consciousness in machines · friendship, technology
Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon (2010)consciousness in monsters · friendship, technology
Small Soldiers (1998)consciousness in objects · friendship, technology
Monster Trucks (2016)consciousness in monsters · friendship, technology
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)consciousness in aliens · friendship
