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<i>The Long Walk</i>: Grief, Guilt, and the Inescapable Weight of the Past

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The Girl (Noutnapha Soydara) and the Boy (Por Silatsa) in a scene from The Long Walk (2019)
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The Long Walk: Grief, Guilt, and the Inescapable Weight of the Past

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Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Navigating the Landscape of Human Emotion

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Image from Watership Down (1978)
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Watership Down: Creating a World in the English Countryside

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Image from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: Living and Dying in the World We Create

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Image from the animated film Boy and the World
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Boy and the World: A Stunning Child’s-Eye View of Post-Colonial Latin America

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Hogarth and the Iron Giant in The Iron Giant
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The Iron Giant: One of the World’s Few Truly Perfect Movies

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Alisa looks at mirror-like flowers in a still from The Mystery of the Third Planet
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The Mystery of the Third Planet: An Intro to Soviet Animation With a Children’s Adventure Turned Cult Classic

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A still from Fantastic Planet: A young female Draag holds a small male Om, whom she keeps as a pet.
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Fantastic Planet: A Surreal, Unsettling Allegory of Oppression

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Signourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in Alien (1979)
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Alien: I’m Chestbursting With Love for This Sci Fi Horror Classic

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Emilio Estevez as Otto in Repo Man
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Repo Man: A Brash, Indelible, Outrageous Look at 1980s America

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Milla Jovovich as Leeloo in The Fifth Element
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The Fifth Element: Saving the World With Weirdness and Wonder

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Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Dr. Lindsey Brigman encounters the alien in The Abyss
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The Abyss: The Nuts-and-Bolts Approach to High-Pressure First Contact

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