Movie Substrate · Film
All of Us Strangers (2023)
★ 7.4 · 1,005 ratings on TMDB
All of us hurt. All of us hope. All of us love.
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.
DirectorAndrew Haigh
The emergence reading
In All of Us Strangers, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “ghostly memory”. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing grief, memory, identity, love.
↷ the deadUSgriefmemoryidentitylove
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 Others (2001)consciousness in the dead · haunted afterlife house
Personal Shopper (2016)consciousness in the dead · haunted paris
When Marnie Was There (2014)consciousness in the dead · spirit-heritage
A Ghost Story (2017)consciousness in the dead · spectral house
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)consciousness in the dead · spectral romance counseling
Just Like Heaven (2005)consciousness in the dead · afterlife apartmentSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Robot Dreams (2023)consciousness in animals · grief, identity
Trolls (2016)consciousness in monsters · grief, identity
The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)consciousness in animals · grief, identity
Solaris (2002)consciousness in aliens · grief, identity
Solaris (1972)consciousness in aliens · grief, identity
MirrorMask (2005)consciousness in monsters · grief, identity
