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Unlike most of Guest’s fake documentaries, which sink deep into the microcosmic worlds they parody, the film is far more character-focused.

From Salon Feb. 5, 2026

Millet’s definition of the end of the world is expansive: Sometimes, the world is microcosmic and social.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 18, 2025

That first half-hour of testimony was sort of a microcosmic recapitulation of Palin’s 2008 debut on the national stage.

From Slate Feb. 10, 2022

And, contrasting with this macrocosmic scale, there is the microcosmic: the stripped-down vulnerability of individual drawings, which are often not much larger than the faces that lean in to absorb them.

From New York Times Jan. 20, 2022

It is an old rural town that has even a few bams, an alienated and microcosmic village within a large city.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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