Tom & Jerry (2021)
Best of enemies. Worst of friends.
Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse get kicked out of their home and relocate to a fancy New York hotel, where a scrappy employee named Kayla will lose her job if she can’t evict Jerry before a high-class wedding at the hotel. Her solution? Hiring Tom to get rid of the pesky mouse.
In Tom & Jerry, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic city”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing competition, ambition, cooperation, work, identity.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Shark Tale (2004)E8 · ambition, identity
Happy Feet Two (2011)E8 · cooperation, identity
The Fox and the Hound 2 (2006)E8 · ambition, identity
My Little Pony: A New Generation (2021)E8 · cooperation, identity
Dr. Dolittle 3 (2006)E8 · competition, identity
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil (2011)E8 · competition, identitySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Turbo (2013)consciousness in animals · snail‑racing world
Racing Stripes (2005)consciousness in animals · zebra racetrack
Surf's Up (2007)consciousness in animals · penguin surf world
Hop (2011)consciousness in animals · bunny Easter kingdom
An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic canine college
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)consciousness in animals · chipmunk high schoolSame 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 · competition, identity
Monsters University (2013)consciousness in monsters · competition, identity
Cars 3 (2017)consciousness in machines · competition, identity
Dead Talents Society (2024)consciousness in the dead · competition, identity
Pixie Hollow Games (2011)consciousness in monsters · competition, identity
The Marvels (2023)consciousness in aliens · cooperation, identity
