Movie Substrate · Film
Under the Boardwalk (2023)
★ 7.3 · 121 ratings on TMDB
Two crabs embark on an epic journey to get home after a storm sweeps them away. Their courage soon unites their families, paving the way for great summers to come.
DirectorDavid Soren
The emergence reading
In Under the Boardwalk, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “crab boardwalk society”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, identity, fear, love, community.
↷ animalsUSprejudiceidentityfearlovecommunity
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
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Secret Life of Pets (2016)consciousness in animals · pet metropolis
Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic forest
Shrek 2 (2004)consciousness in animals · fairy‑tale kingdom
The Little Mermaid (1989)consciousness in animals · undersea kingdom
Shrek Forever After (2010)consciousness in animals · ogre‑centric fairy‑tale kingdom
The Angry Birds Movie (2016)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic bird islandSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Luca (2021)consciousness in monsters · fear, identity
Shrek (2001)consciousness in monsters · identity, love
Cars (2006)consciousness in machines · community, identity
Elemental (2023)consciousness carried elsewhere · identity, love
Young Frankenstein (1974)consciousness in the dead · identity, love
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)consciousness in machines · identity, love
