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Over the past nine years, Donald Trump has been variously described as narcissistic, mendacious, authoritarian, unbalanced, ignorant, incompetent, egotistic and racist — as someone who demonizes minorities and fans ethnic hostility.

In “The Exhibitionist,” a family lives in the shadow of a blustering, egotistic, once important painter.

Shinkai, who writes and directs his films, has become convinced that young people shouldn’t be pandered to with stories where the natural world is heroically returned to balance, calling such approaches “egotistic and irresponsible.”

“It was a big mistake not to see the European dimension, bringing back the image of Germany as a big egotistic power trampling on its partners,” he said.

As the trio rehearses for Cuevas’s upcoming movie, each of their unscrupulous and egotistic motivations rises to the surface.