Shiva Baby Review: A Claustrophobic Solidarity of Deficiency and Desire, and its Abnormal Sense of Liberation
When the proof of one’s existence is dictated by the gaze of others, how tragically fragmented does the individual self become? Using the static environment of a funeral as its stage, the film…
Bottoms (2023): Subversive Solidarity and the Anatomy of “Loser” Desires in B-Movie Comedy
The methods chosen by the isolated to save themselves are sometimes as absurd as they are destructive. Shattering the framework of “femininity” defined by society is perhaps not achieved through elegant solidarity, but…
