E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
He is afraid. He is totally alone. He is 3,000,000 light years from home.
An alien is left behind on Earth and saved by the 10-year-old Elliott who decides to keep him hidden in his home. While a task force hunts for the extra-terrestrial, Elliott, his brother, and his little sister Gertie form an emotional bond with their new friend, and try to help him find his way home.
In E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “suburban alien encounter”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing family, otherness, government, friendship, childhood.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Mac and Me (1988)consciousness in aliens · alien suburbia
Lilo & Stitch (2002)consciousness in aliens · ohana alien adoption
Paul (2011)consciousness in aliens · alien roadtrip
Aliens in the Attic (2009)consciousness in aliens · attic invasion
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005)consciousness in aliens · Hawaiian alien family
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)consciousness in aliens · cosmic odysseySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000)consciousness in monsters · family, otherness
The Wolfman (2010)consciousness in animals · family, otherness
The House of Magic (2013)consciousness in animals · family, friendship
Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997)consciousness in the dead · family, friendship
Nightborn (2026)consciousness in monsters · family, otherness
A Haunted House 2 (2014)consciousness in objects · family, othernessSame people
Shared director or cast.
