The Electric State (2025)
Rage with the machines.
An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick.
In The Electric State, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “drone dystopia”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, exploitation, consciousness, corporate, war.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Next Gen (2018)E8 · consciousness, corporate
Lucy (2014)E8/E10 · consciousness, technology
I, Robot (2004)E8/E10 · consciousness, technology
Chappie (2015)E8/E10 · corporate, technology
Blade Runner (1982)E8/E10 · consciousness, technology
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)E8/E10 · exploitation, technologySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)E7/E12 · rare rung · technology, war
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)E13/E14 · rare rung · technology, war
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)E12/E14 · rare rung · technology, war
WarGames (1983)E12/E14 · rare rung · technology, war
Space Battleship Yamato (2010)E13/E14 · rare rung · technology, war
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)E6/E11 · rare rung · exploitation, technologyAlso bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Short Circuit (1986)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
TRON: Ares (2025)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Outside the Wire (2021)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Wifelike (2022)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Short Circuit 2 (1988)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorousAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Free Guy (2021)consciousness in machines · video‑game city
Alien: Romulus (2024)consciousness in machines · corporate mining outpost
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)consciousness in machines · cybernetic corporate dystopia
Vice (2015)consciousness in machines · synthetic resort
Monsters of Man (2020)consciousness in machines · jungle AI testground
Ghost in the Shell (2017)consciousness in machines · cybernetic shellscapeSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)consciousness in animals · exploitation, technology
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)consciousness in monsters · corporate, exploitation
Blue Beetle (2023)consciousness in aliens · corporate, technology
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)consciousness carried elsewhere · exploitation, technology
The Man with Two Brains (1983)consciousness carried elsewhere · consciousness, technology
Avengers: Endgame (2019)consciousness in aliens · technology, warSame people
Shared director or cast.
Captain America: Civil War (2016)dir. Anthony Russo
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)dir. Anthony Russo
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)dir. Anthony Russo
The Hunger Games (2012)Stanley Tucci
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)Stanley Tucci
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)Stanley Tucci