Skylines (2020)
To save our world she must invade theirs.
When a virus threatens to turn the now earth-dwelling friendly alien hybrids against humans, Captain Rose Corley must lead a team of elite mercenaries on a mission to the alien world in order to save what's left of humanity.
In Skylines, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “alien invasion war”. The story fights on E13/E6 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing war, colonialism, pandemic, genocide, power.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Outlander (2008)E6 · rare rung · colonialism
Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming (1994)E6 · rare rung · power
Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug (1991)E6 · rare rung · power
Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon (1995)E6 · rare rung · power
Battlefield Earth (2000)E6 · rare rung · colonialism
Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)E6/E13 · rare rung · colonialismSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Wolfwalkers (2020)E7/E9/E10 · rare rung · colonialism, power
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)E7/E12 · rare rung · power, war
Avengers: Endgame (2019)E8/E11/E14 · rare rung · power, war
Casino Royale (1967)E8/E11/E14 · rare rung · power, war
Eternals (2021)E8/E14 · rare rung · colonialism, power
Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks (1993)E8/E14 · rare rung · power, warAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)consciousness in aliens · heroic alliance vs alien empire
Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)consciousness in aliens · interstellar religious war
Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021 (2022)consciousness in aliens · miniature alien war
Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (2010)consciousness in aliens · minimoy realm
Thor: The Dark World (2013)consciousness in aliens · nine‑realm cosmos
Independence Day (1996)consciousness in aliens · global alien invasionSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)consciousness carried elsewhere · power, war
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)consciousness in machines · power, war
Warcraft (2016)consciousness in monsters · power, war
Mortal Kombat (1995)consciousness in monsters · power, war
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)consciousness in animals · colonialism, war
The Lord of the Rings (1978)consciousness in animals · power, war
