Richard Linklater has a new animated movie on Netflix this week, and it is lovely:
One element of it is clearly a dream of Linklater’s, or at least a fantasy. In it, he follows an elementary school-aged boy named Stan as he is covertly recruited into the Apollo space program. Due to an engineering snafu, NASA built the Apollo capsule too small, you see. They need someone with child-sized proportions to test it on its maiden voyage to the Moon. Plucky young Stan is chosen to become the first boy in outer space.
In live-action, the dream sequences would have been impossible to swallow and the mundane ’60s childhood stuff could have begun to feel tedious, a simple accounting of television shows and playground rituals and curious neighborhood characters. Instead,
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