Starman (1984)
In 1977 Voyager II was launched into space, inviting all lifeforms in the universe to visit our planet. Get ready. Company's coming.
When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.
In Starman, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “alien-visitor romance”. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing love, grief, alien, government, identity.
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 Astronaut (2025)consciousness in aliens · alien infiltration
Solaris (2002)consciousness in aliens · psychic ocean
Man of Steel (2013)consciousness in aliens · alien savior myth
Max Steel (2016)consciousness in aliens · alien symbiote hero
Blue Beetle (2023)consciousness in aliens · alien artifact heroics
Solaris (1972)consciousness in aliens · memory-planetSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Trolls (2016)consciousness in monsters · grief, identity
The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)consciousness in animals · grief, identity
A Dog's Journey (2019)consciousness in animals · grief, identity
All of Us Strangers (2023)consciousness in the dead · grief, identity
Mannequin (1987)consciousness in objects · identity, love
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space (1979)consciousness in machines · alien, identity
