Hitpig! (2024)
When you’re on the lam, they call the ham.
A porcine bounty hunter accepts his next hit: Pickles, a naive, ebullient elephant. Though he initially sets out to capture the perky pachyderm, the unlikely pair find themselves crisscrossing the globe on an adventure that brings out the best in both of them.
In Hitpig!, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic animal world”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing exploitation, identity, freedom, prejudice, family.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)E8/E9/E10 · family, identity
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996)E8/E9/E10 · family, identity
White Fang (1991)E8/E9/E10 · exploitation, freedom
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022)E8/E9/E10 · family, identity
Stuart Little (1999)E8/E9 · family, identity
Dumbo (1941)E8/E9 · exploitation, identitySame 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.
James and the Giant Peach (1996)consciousness in animals · insect society
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic garden
Porco Rosso (1992)consciousness in animals · pig-ace sky
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)consciousness in animals · chipmunk pop industry
Paddington (2014)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic bear in London
Ferdinand (2017)consciousness in animals · bullfighting arenaSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)consciousness in monsters · family, identity
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000)consciousness in monsters · family, identity
Lilo & Stitch (2025)consciousness in aliens · family, identity
The Happytime Murders (2018)consciousness in objects · exploitation, identity
Christopher Robin (2018)consciousness in objects · exploitation, family
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)consciousness carried elsewhere · exploitation, familySame people
Shared director or cast.
