1)The Western literature elements in Spirited Away do make the story much more enjoyable, because people from the Western culture can relate it to past childhood books and stories. I honestly don't think the fact that they appear in a Japanese film make them some kind of alien concept, because the lore has the same main concepts just a different type of narration. The story itself is easy to follow, I don't know if it was the fact that the familiar elements that were incorporated, but with many movies, it is fairly easy to understand what is happening in them and the symbolism because the most movie makers want the general population to understand the messages.
2)I strongly agree with the statement that spiritual development is part of the solution to environmental crises. People who are struggling often look to some outside force that could help them and give them peace, because that's what people want during time of crises. People often become more spiritual in darker times, when things go wrong or when people die because that way they can believe that everything is happening for a reason, that on some other level there will never be anything terrible. This question also says that film suggests that the world of the spirits is necessary to help us live in the everyday world, and the reason they suggest this is because they know that the majority of everyone believes in some kind of spiritualism and they would be able to think deeply about this movie.
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