Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)
2 much of a good thing is even better.
Jon and Garfield visit the United Kingdom, where a case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruling over a castle. His reign is soon jeopardized by the nefarious Lord Dargis, who has designs on the estate.
In Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “cat estate”. The story fights on E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing class, inheritance, authority.
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.
Antz (1998)consciousness in animals · anthill metropolis
Robin Hood (1973)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic medieval England
Flushed Away (2006)consciousness in animals · sewer metropolis
Ernest & Celestine (2012)consciousness in animals · animal society
Animal Farm (1954)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic farm
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (2022)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic feudal JapanSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Sleepy Hollow (1999)consciousness in the dead · class, inheritance
The Boxtrolls (2014)consciousness in monsters · authority, class
Metropolis (2001)consciousness in machines · authority, class
Nanny McPhee (2005)consciousness in monsters · authority, class
The Turning (2020)consciousness in the dead · authority, class
Jupiter Ascending (2015)consciousness in aliens · class, inheritance
