Animation's greatest trick is making you forget it has any tricks at all: Grave of the Fireflies breaks you with pencil and paint in ways live action rarely manages. From Studio Ghibli's luminous worlds to darker, stranger work like Perfect Blue, the form earns every ounce of serious attention it gets. See what Macca made of it all below.
1950s
There's a version of Alice in Wonderland that could genuinely disturb you. Lewis Carroll's original stories are strange in a way that gets under the skin, full of logic that twists back on itself, a world that seems to operate on cruelty dressed up as nonsense,
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