one of these days I am gonna write an essay about how the characters played by human actors never have shadows, but the recognizers and gridbugs do

undoubtedly this is just something about the techniques used in making the movie– the computer animation technology allowed the creation of shadows that followed the model, but the process for putting humans into that world didn’t allow it as easily

but my brain loves to find symbolism even if no one meant to put it there

and i keep coming back to the idea that shadows and reflections are sometimes believed to be manifestations of the soul

and some of the themes of religious role-reversal that I’ve previously observed when (over)analyzing this film

that, plus the “losing his shadow” storyline in Peter Pan, which I don’t think I considered before when I was looking at the other parallels

but i need to sleep and my brain can’t articulate all of this now so it’ll have to wait