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make art aspirational again - by Jesse - fish in a pool

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media has become too self-aware

For the past few months, a couple of quotes from Hayao Miyazaki’s “starting points” have been writhing like worms in the back of my brain. A town that people would like to visit. A sky through which people would like to fly. A secret hideaway we ourselves would want. And a worry-free, stirring, uplifting world. Once upon a time, earth was a beautiful place. Let us make a film like this. It will attempt to stimulate a spiritual thirst, and convey the importance of yearning and aspiration to an audience that—just as we middle-aged men once did—tends to give up too easily on the idea of being…

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