The 2020-2021 Film Journal Entry #31: "Millennium Actress"

The thirty-first entry of the 2020-2021 Film Journal is "Millennium Actress". In this unusual installment, I credit director Satoshi Kon for changing my perspective on animation when I was a teenager; examine this fascinating and strange film; and, in the spirit of honesty, let loose a few old secrets between myself and cinema that this shockingly relatable, and thusly a little devastating, picture forced out of me.