Category: Video Essay
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Encanto: The Anti Lion King
May you live in interesting times. ~Ironic Chinese blessing (apocryphal) The hardest thing to realize is that there is a conflict in the first place. You watch a movie and this movie divides the world into nice, tidy groups: right, wrong, good guys, and bad guys. By and large, the distinctions between these groups are not…
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The Menu: “Content,” Consumerism, and Disposable Art
The Menu has generated a lot of discussion with its themes of privilege and class, but I think that it also has some very interesting points to make about consumerism and the way that we interact with art.
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A Retrospective on The Office
Some thoughts on failure, desire, and triumph inspired by the journey of Michael Scott.
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The Tragic Beauty of Good Time
An examination of tragedy and contending with chaos in the film Good Time by the Safdie Brothers.
The Barking Years 