Loving Highsmith 2022: A Record of Desire and a Deep Interpretation of an Isolated Soul
It is said that all great sentences begin with a deficiency. For those who have ever pressed ink firmly into paper to record truths they dared not utter beneath the smooth surface of…
May December: Twisted Desire Between Truth and Performance, A Precarious Mirroring
To understand the life of another may be an arrogant illusion. We assemble the puzzle of “truth” by collecting only the fragments we wish to see, yet what we encounter when those pieces…
Notes on a Scandal (2006): An Interpretation of Destructive Desire Left by a Chronicle of Obsession and Isolation
The moment we hold someone’s secret in our hands, we often mistake it for power. However, the longing to intervene deeply in another’s life is usually closer to a desperate struggle to conceal…
The Favourite: An Interpretation of the Triangular Structure of Isolation and Desire Eroding Beneath the Facade of Power
When love becomes a secondary instrument of power, the relationship inevitably sinks toward tragedy. We long to possess another entirely, yet at the apex of that possession, we are met only with the…
Black Mirror: San Junipero Interpretation—The Desire of Two Women Who Chose an Eternal Paradise Beyond Death
At the edge of an isolated reality, what is the most earnest fantasy we wish to encounter? Every human fears loss and yearns for the brilliance of bygone times. Perhaps the most cruel…
Mine (2021): Beyond Jung Seo-hyun and Choi Su-ji’s Closed Doors, a Reinterpretation of Repressed Desire
Love is sometimes proven more by absence than by presence itself. The narrative of a woman who possessed everything yet could not possess ‘herself’ paints a picture of profound solitude against the backdrop…
