Movie Substrate · Film
Little Fish (2021)
★ 7.1 · 259 ratings on TMDB
Love is unforgettable.
A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.
DirectorChad Hartigan
The emergence reading
In Little Fish, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic farm town”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, reputation, alien, community.
↷ animalsUSprejudicereputationaliencommunity
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Open Season (2006)E8/E9 · community, prejudice
The Nut Job (2014)E8/E9 · community, prejudice
The Ant Bully (2006)E8/E9 · community, prejudice
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996)E8/E9 · community, prejudice
Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)E8/E9 · community, prejudice
We Bare Bears: The Movie (2020)E8/E9 · community, prejudiceAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Chicken Little (2005)consciousness in animals · animal town
The Angry Birds Movie (2016)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic bird island
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic village
Horton Hears a Who! (2008)consciousness in animals · jungle micro‑society
Babe: Pig in the City (1998)consciousness in animals · animal metropolis
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)consciousness in animals · talking-animal mystery townSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Cars (2006)consciousness in machines · community, prejudice
Monsters vs Aliens (2009)consciousness in monsters · alien, prejudice
Tinker Bell (2008)consciousness in monsters · community, prejudice
Jules (2023)consciousness in aliens · alien, community
Freaks of Nature (2015)consciousness in the dead · alien, prejudice
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 (2022)consciousness in aliens · alien, prejudice
