Size and Family Scale
These films keep returning to the literal shrinking, growing, and scaling of bodies and worlds — a miniaturized crew navigating a bloodstream, a shrunken pilot lost in a man's chest cavity, a gentle giant towering over an anxious friend, beanstalks climbed into a colossus's castle — using physical size as a stand-in for how small or overwhelmed people feel inside their families and circumstances. Alongside that, there's a persistent thread of sprawling households and found families forcing reconnection through chaos, whether it's a divorced father crossing a continent for his kids, a suicidal man absorbed into a stranger's clan, or a multi-generational holiday gathering. The tone swings between slapstick wonder and sincere tenderness, but the underlying gesture is the same: shrink the world down or blow it up until family becomes impossible to ignore.
