Alphaville (1965)
Suddenly the word is Alphaville... and a secret agent is in a breathless race against the Masters of the Future.
Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”
In Alphaville, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “logic dystopia”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing logic, control, emotion, language.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also 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.
Insurgent (2015)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
Coco (2017)alters at E9 · same rung · rigorous
The Cabin in the Woods (2012)alters at E9 · same rung · rigorous
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
Yesterday (2019)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
This Is the End (2013)alters at E9 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Emoji Movie (2017)consciousness in machines · emoji smartphone world
The Matrix (1999)consciousness in machines · simulated reality
Ex Machina (2015)consciousness in machines · AI confinement test
Oblivion (2013)consciousness in machines · post‑apocalyptic AI colony
I, Robot (2004)consciousness in machines · AI dystopia
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)consciousness in machines · robotic apocalypseSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Lego Movie (2014)consciousness in objects · control
They Live (1988)consciousness in aliens · control
Ghostbusters II (1989)consciousness in the dead · emotion
The Host (2013)consciousness in aliens · control
The Haunted Mansion (2003)consciousness in the dead · control
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2014)consciousness in animals · control
