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So in other news, The Incredibles and I *heart* Huckabees were both very awesome, joy-making movies. The first in that "how cool!" way, with a lots of love for simple and neat drawing/animating style thrown in with a great story, and not at all exclusivist to those of us who already loved superheroes. Nobody in animation today but Pixar has got a sense of the visual that fits the story so perfectly. In America anyhow. Miyazaki's great at that too. (Spirited Away! Nausicaa!)
Huckabees was just thrilling. The way existentialism should be, it just grabs you and brings you in the moment. You don't have to know philosophy to get it; it's very demonstrative and expressive of the thought-system behind it without getting expository or throwing fancy metaphysical terms at you.
Oh, and if you can get a hold of it, the most fun essay I've read in quite some time — perhaps ever — is by Tom Robbins, 'In Defiance of Gravity.' That was in the September issue of Harper's.
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