Movie Substrate · Film
Umma (2022)
★ 5.3 · 328 ratings on TMDB
A mother's love never dies
Amanda and her daughter live a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her own mother.
DirectorIris K. Shim
The emergence reading
In Umma, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “haunted heritage farm”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, family, memory, tradition, grief.
↷ the deadUSidentityfamilymemorytraditiongrief
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.
When Marnie Was There (2014)consciousness in the dead · spirit-heritage
Coco (2017)consciousness in the dead · afterlife of memory
Spirited Away (2001)consciousness in the dead · spirit bathhouse
The Others (2001)consciousness in the dead · haunted afterlife house
The Medium (2021)consciousness in the dead · spirit‑possessed village
Lake Mungo (2009)consciousness in the dead · haunted suburbiaSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)consciousness in objects · family, identity
Teen Wolf: The Movie (2023)consciousness in monsters · family, grief
Child of Kamiari Month (2021)consciousness in animals · family, grief
Finding Dory (2016)consciousness in animals · family, identity
The Grinch (2018)consciousness in monsters · family, identity
Monster House (2006)consciousness in objects · family, grief
