Meet the Feebles (1989)
Welcome to the jungle!
Heidi, star of the "Meet The Feebles Variety Hour" discovers her lover Bletch the Walrus is cheating on her. And with all the world waiting for the show, the assorted co-stars must contend with drug addiction, extortion, robbery, disease, drug dealing, and murder.
In Meet the Feebles, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic theatre world”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing exploitation, media, corruption, power, authority.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Ali G Indahouse (2002)E8/E10 · authority, corruption
The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) (2015)E8/E10 · authority, corruption
Vice (2018)E10 · authority, corruption
The Bubble (2022)E8 · authority, exploitation
Death to Smoochy (2002)E8 · corruption, exploitation
Batman Returns (1992)E8/E10 · corruption, mediaSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · authority, exploitation
Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)E7/E9 · rare rung · exploitation, power
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)E6/E11 · rare rung · exploitation, power
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)E6/E12 · rare rung · exploitation, power
Don't Look Up (2021)E14 · rare rung · authority, media
War, Inc. (2008)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, exploitationAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Lion King (2019)consciousness in animals · pride kingdom
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)consciousness in animals · dinosaur‑rescue
The Lion King (1994)consciousness in animals · savanna monarchy
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic savanna
Planet of the Apes (1968)consciousness in animals · ape-ruled Earth
Shrek Forever After (2010)consciousness in animals · ogre‑centric fairy‑tale kingdomSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Repossessed (1990)consciousness in monsters · authority, exploitation
The Suicide Squad (2021)consciousness in aliens · authority, corruption
Green Lantern: First Flight (2009)consciousness in aliens · authority, corruption
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Revenge of Scar (2022)consciousness in machines · authority, exploitation
Artemis Fowl (2020)consciousness in monsters · authority, exploitation
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)consciousness in machines · exploitation, media
