Kelly Reichardt utilizes Nature to explore the organics of friendship and platonic intimacy as natural components of life with one another.…
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After high school ends, Enid and Rebecca find themselves thrown into the real world, where they must face the different realities of how confusing adulthood can be when you’re not sure what you’re looking for.…
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'Synecdoche, New York' brilliantly creates structures that isolate its protagonist from his identity throughout, until he is left entirely vacant and alone.…
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‘Black Narcissus’ is a colonizer’s fever dream, taking viewers inside the mind of the Orientalist who simultaneously rejects and lusts after the ‘uncivilized.'…
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The climactic journey of 'Spirited Away' holds the key to understanding the ethos behind Hayao Miyazaki's entire filmography.…
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The importance of representation is typically told as a way for marginalized audiences to see characters who resemble themselves act as protagonists of their own stories, yet telling the story of Olivia, a woman who navigates the precarity of her life precisely…
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Being critical of media is one hundred percent necessary and valuable, but it is also completely valid to just enjoy things.…
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'Uncut Gems’' protagonist represents a watershed moment in Jewish cultural history that questions age-old archetypes and points towards a more global, self-aware sense of being a Jew in the world.…
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Advertisements “When used appropriately, it has an 83 percent rate of return on a dinner invitation. It’s called the bend and snap.” – Elle Woods In a move that lasted no more than a few seconds, fashionista turned lawyer Elle Woods made…
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Having to confront the inevitable dissolution of all things into a great nothingness is a disconcerting exercise; That we as individuals and humans as a collective are merely a blip in the fabric of time is both freeing and agonizing.…
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