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In the last couple of years we have witnessed the development of people creating their own safe spaces and bubbles. Considering this is the age of streaming, social media and influencers, this should come as no surprise, and you could make the argument that this process has only been propelled by the pandemic. Societies, politics and even systems of education have to figure out a way to deal with this development which may have severe consequences for our lives, with people unable to act compassionately or social with one another as we can see with conversations on social media and also in real life, for example. Given his predilection for characters building their own safe spaces, only to have them see it being destroyed, Japanese director Kenichi Ugana may be a suitable candidate to tackle the issue, which he has done on his recent feature “The Girls”, that premiered recently...