Leveraging animation’s ability for a director to erase boundaries and exercise nuanced control of the entire image, Kon is the master at this. There’s the world as it theoretically is. Then, there is the world as it is reflected in media. Then, the world as it is interpreted by the human mind… subdivisible into conscious and subconscious, rational and irrational. In Kon’s anime, these distinctions all collapse in on each other.
