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The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya: Peer Pressure From Departed Souls

We all face pressure to be something other than what we are. From society that expects us to conform for a multitude of reasons. Morality, decency, productivity, to contribute to the great human cause while also maintaining a prescribed “decorum” as years of conditioning and expectation dictate we should under the guise of “human nature.” From our family concerned of the reputation and pressures of living up to their name, the ideals they feel we should be emulating, and the life they imagined we would have when they decided to welcome us into the world, that we owe them for that. And from within ourselves that we internalize from all these different places and reasons. Those most introspective seize these ideas and make the conscious decision to not impart these upon those they meet in the future. Small, inconsequential, but unimaginably powerful of a choice that not all of us get to make, whether we want to or not. The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya, was directed by the late, great Isao...

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