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Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2015
"Who are you?" asks the Yoda-esque Maz Kanata in the trailer. It is—not only—a question to our new heroine Rey, but the Star Wars-Franchise and the Fandom as whole. The Force Awakens is anything but an ordinary remake of A New Hope: The quest to find Luke Skywalker starts out as a treasure hunt, but it evolves into a journey, an epic adventure, to retrieve a long lost identity.
Enter: Rey, a young scavenger on the harsh desert planet Jakku.…
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1984
Nature is a plague. The toxic jungle threatens to destroy everything. One settlement after another is lost. People die everywhere. Mankind is desperate. What should we do? Try to fight nature? Find a cure? Let it be as it is?
Hayao Miyazaki created a breathtaking world of pure hostility, which begs you to think about ecological issues. Nausicaä is the princess of the valley of the wind. She's a lover of nature; fond of all living beings – even the…
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Only Yesterday 1991
It's the small experiences – the insignificant insults – which shape us the most. They kill our inner child. And what happens, once it is dead? Once our naïve hopes and dreams are crushed? Are we still true to ourselves? If not, are we bold enough to make hard choices to pursue happiness? Do we take the plunge?
Isao Takahata's Only Yesterday doesn't shy away to deal with these questions: As Taeko – a 27-year-old, unmarried, Tokyo office-employee – takes…