Movie Substrate · Film
The Imaginary (2023)
★ 7.6 · 88 ratings on TMDB
A boy no one can see, and the Imaginaries.
Amanda and her imaginary friend Rudger go on thrilling make-believe adventures. But when Rudger finds himself alone, he faces a mysterious threat.
DirectorYoshiyuki Momose
The emergence reading
In The Imaginary, consciousness is carried by abstract concepts — a plane of “imaginary realm”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing imagination, memory, forgetting, creativity, loss.
↷ abstract conceptsJPimaginationmemoryforgettingcreativityloss
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Inside Out 2 (2024)consciousness in abstractions · personified mindscape
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)consciousness in abstractions · imaginarium
Riley's First Date? (2015)consciousness in abstractions · family home mindscape
Paper Man (2009)consciousness in abstractions · mindscape
Drop Dead Fred (1991)consciousness in abstractions · imaginary friend realm
Inside Out (2015)consciousness in abstractions · inner mindSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The NeverEnding Story (1984)consciousness in monsters · creativity, imagination
The Lego Movie (2014)consciousness in objects · creativity, imagination
IF (2024)consciousness in monsters · imagination, memory
Wonder Park (2019)consciousness in animals · creativity, imagination
The Little Prince (2015)consciousness in aliens · imagination, memory
Coco (2017)consciousness in the dead · memory
