Part-way through I thought, oh no, this is another overwritten thinkpiece that will ultimately conclude with "you see, the secret message of this art is ... cap

Part-way through I thought, oh no, this is another overwritten thinkpiece that will ultimately conclude with "you see, the secret message of this art is ... capitalism is bad". But no, the story here is more interesting. I don't want to do it a disservice by saying there's a discrete "point", but it hadn't occurred to me that the spirit of Miyazaki's films could only be arrived at by somebody who both retained enough of a child's sensibility to spend all of his life on animation and accumulated enough of an adult's sensibility to do so, apparently, to the effective exclusion of much of those extra-vocational things that are usually said to make life enjoyable. Except for making ramen, at least [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BPTNdmdJSc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BPTNdmdJSc