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Episode 140: That Ain't Plot: On Hayao Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away,' with Meredith Michael

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Is There a Difference Between a Young Girl and a Real Person?

Chihiro is a real person, but she also has a spirit. And this is like what the whole point of the film is about is about building up her spirit and her inner self scrubbing her clean. She's didn't come there as a customer. Like she doesn't have to spend money. She has to do the work to get there. That's one of the I think you want to draw a lesson from this movie is that she has to learn how to serve something. Yeah. No face is kind of another example of this building your identity kind of thing because he isn't anything. He doesn't have an identity. Nobody pays attention to him. It does express at

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