Miyazaki on Unchecked Hunger

A still from the movie Spirited Away showing a young girl climbing a giant bath tub which houses a brown, goopy monster

Speaking of ravenous forces in the neighborhood that would, if left unchecked, swallow each and every one of us up and keep on being hungry, how about the sublime stink spirit from Spirited Away (2001). As I recall, that avatar of a polluted river was not defeated by giving it one more thing to eat, and then one more, and then another. Some dangers one must address at their root.

Jasper Nighthawk @jaspernighthawk