Concerning My Daughter Review: The Sublimity of an Abnormal Solidarity Forged by Isolated Lives
To believe one can fully understand another may be an arrogant illusion. We merely contemplate others through a window from within the rooms of our own respective deficiencies. Yet, the act of opening…
Funny Story: On Tragic Jokes, Fractured Relationships, and Desperate Isolation
We often wish to believe that life is a sophisticatedly crafted comedy, yet we frequently wake to the realization that it is actually composed of the fragments of an irreparable tragedy. When a…
Conversations with Friends: The Aesthetics of the ‘Fissure’ Born from the Collision of Isolated Interiors and the Worlds of Others
Love is often less a desire to possess someone entirely and more a desperate struggle to have one’s own deficiencies validated through the gaze of another. While we long to connect with others,…
Cruel Summer: The Cruel Transposition of Memory Wrought by Desire and Jealousy
At some point, we all dream of becoming someone else—someone radiant. However, the moment that longing transcends simple imitation and is realized by using another’s pain as a stepping stone, it ceases to…
In Hiding: An Interpretation of the Ending and the Psychology of Obsession: A Tragedy Born of Isolated Desire
Human desire is sometimes more intense than the instinct for survival, and isolation causes that desire to ferment into a deformed shape. Amidst the massive vortex of violence that is war, what these…
Between the Seasons (2018): The Aesthetics of Isolation Breathed by Hidden Identity and Lack of Solidarity
The attempt to find one’s own temperature while shielding oneself from the cold wind of public scrutiny is often akin to volunteering for a freezing winter. We all live harboring a vast valley…
