Robot Dreams (2023)
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A lonely dog's friendship with his robot companion takes a sad turn when an unexpected malfunction forces him to abandon Robot at the beach. Will Dog ever meet Robot again?
In Robot Dreams, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic Manhattan”. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing love, grief, memory, identity, technology.
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 hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)consciousness in animals · dog narrator
A Dog's Journey (2019)consciousness in animals · canine reincarnation saga
Vivo (2021)consciousness in animals · musical animal odyssey
The Secret Life of Pets (2016)consciousness in animals · pet metropolis
Finding Dory (2016)consciousness in animals · underwater community
The Little Mermaid (1989)consciousness in animals · undersea kingdomSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
All of Us Strangers (2023)consciousness in the dead · grief, identity
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)consciousness in machines · identity, memory
Oblivion (2013)consciousness in machines · identity, memory
The Others (2001)consciousness in the dead · grief, identity
Trolls (2016)consciousness in monsters · grief, identity
Solaris (1972)consciousness in aliens · grief, identity