Tumbbad (2018)
A Tale of Greed Beyond Fear.
India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that Vinayak gets obsessed with.
In Tumbbad, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “cursed treasure womb”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing greed, myth, curses, colonialism, family.
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
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Night Swim (2024)consciousness in monsters · haunted poolSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
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Peter Rabbit (2018)consciousness in animals · family, greed
Over the Moon (2020)consciousness carried elsewhere · family, myth
Song of the Sea (2014)consciousness in animals · family, myth
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