Alien Resurrection (1997)
It's already too late.
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.
In Alien Resurrection, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “cloned‑android starship”. The story fights on E8/E10/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, corporate, bioethics, survival.
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 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.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Transformers (2007)consciousness in machines · mechanical war
Ghost in the Shell (2017)consciousness in machines · cybernetic shellscape
Oblivion (2013)consciousness in machines · post‑apocalyptic AI colony
Cars 3 (2017)consciousness in machines · car racing world
Moon (2009)consciousness in machines · lunar mining outpost
TRON: Legacy (2010)consciousness in machines · digital gridSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)consciousness in animals · identity, survival
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)consciousness carried elsewhere · identity, survival
Venom (2018)consciousness in aliens · corporate, identity
Alien (1979)consciousness in monsters · corporate, survival
Blue Beetle (2023)consciousness in aliens · corporate, identity
March of the Penguins (2005)consciousness in animals · identity, survival
