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

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You, Baba

The message of the film is that she has to have some kind of trust. Trust, right? Something in the world, in the universe. Exactly. And this is also what ends up helping her save her parents because I mean, the last final test is you, Baba has turned a bunch of the staff into pigs. She presents these pigs to a hero and says, all right, if you can identify which of these is your parents, you get to go off scot-free. And she here looks at them and she just knows that it's none of them. And she has to trust that feeling is correct.Yeah, it's brilliant. It's brilliant because it is

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