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Favorites are movies I'm thinking about
Belle is all about the virtual avatar as an extension of the Self. It's about other things too, as all great films are, but this is the film's thesis in my opinion. I've seen Hosoda explore this before with Summer Wars, a brilliant film that I might now consider an inferior version of Belle, but I'd have to rewatch to be sure. In any case, Hosoda knows what he's doing with this subject, and I'd watch him explore it over…