
Returning to Earth as an imitator, the legendary Mexican artist Pedro Infante must prove that he is no longer a womanizer to enter paradise.
In Out of the Clear Blue Sky, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “afterlife-reincarnation”. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing redemption, faith, identity, infidelity, afterlife.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
Insurgent (2015)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
Isn't It Romantic (2019)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
The Final Girls (2015)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
Left Behind (2014)alters at E9 · same rung · looseOther films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Others (2001)consciousness in the dead · haunted afterlife house
Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds (2017)consciousness in the dead · afterlife tribunal
Personal Shopper (2016)consciousness in the dead · haunted paris
Teen Spirit (2011)consciousness in the dead · afterlife high school
Jessabelle (2014)consciousness in the dead · southern haunted lineage
The Sea of Trees (2016)consciousness in the dead · suicide forest purgatoryThe same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)consciousness in aliens · identity, redemption
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)consciousness in aliens · faith, identity
Soul (2020)consciousness in abstractions · afterlife, identity
Van Helsing (2004)consciousness in monsters · faith, redemption
Constantine (2005)consciousness in monsters · faith, redemption
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)consciousness carried elsewhere · faith, redemption