Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022)
Some connections never die.
Craig, a young boy living in a small town befriends an older, reclusive billionaire, Mr. Harrigan. The two form a bond over books and an iPhone, but when the man passes away the boy discovers that not everything dead is gone.
In Mr. Harrigan's Phone, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “phone afterlife”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing grief, revenge, technology, death, communication.
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.
Upgrade (2018)consciousness in machines · cybernetic augmentation
M3GAN (2022)consciousness in machines · sentient-toy horror
Replicas (2018)consciousness in machines · mind‑upload dystopia
After Yang (2022)consciousness in machines · synthetic family
The Wraith (1986)consciousness in machines · revenge car
The Car (1977)consciousness in machines · possessed automobileSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Sixth Sense (1999)consciousness in the dead · communication, death
The Discovery (2017)consciousness in the dead · death, grief
Shocker (1989)consciousness carried elsewhere · death, revenge
Collateral Beauty (2016)consciousness in abstractions · death, grief
A Monster Calls (2016)consciousness in monsters · death, grief
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)consciousness in animals · revenge, technology
