Movie Substrate · Film
Cats (2019)
★ 4.1 · 1,042 ratings on TMDB
You will believe.
A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.
DirectorTom Hooper
The emergence reading
In Cats, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “feline society”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, belonging, tradition, class, redemption.
↷ animalsUSidentitybelongingtraditionclassredemption
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Bambi II (2006)E8/E9 · belonging, identity
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)E8/E9 · belonging, class
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)E8/E9 · belonging, identity
The Three Caballeros (1944)E8/E9 · belonging, identity
Surf's Up 2: WaveMania (2017)E8/E9 · belonging, identity
The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar (2016)E9 · belonging, identityAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Jungle Book (2016)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic jungle
Paddington (2014)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic bear in London
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic savanna
Babe (1995)consciousness in animals · talking farm
Lady and the Tramp (2019)consciousness in animals · canine suburbia
Tarzan II (2005)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic jungleSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Shrek (2001)consciousness in monsters · class, identity
Aladdin (1992)consciousness carried elsewhere · class, identity
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013)consciousness carried elsewhere · class, identity
Tinker Bell (2008)consciousness in monsters · belonging, identity
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)consciousness in aliens · belonging, identity
Spirited Away (2001)consciousness in the dead · identity, tradition
