Easy Abby: Lesbian Narrative and the Seduction of Anxiety
We live in a constant paradox: fearing deep immersion into another person while simultaneously craving that one individual who will truly understand us. Maintaining distance from others serves as our most cowardly, yet…
High Seas: Desire and Isolation on the Ocean, the Abyss of Truth Drawn by Carolina and Casandra
On the isolated sea, a massive luxury ocean liner is a closed universe unto itself. We sometimes discover the most unfamiliar abyss within those closest to us, becoming addicted to the scent of…
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…
The Bisexual: Reconstructing Isolation at the Borders of Identity
Much like the moment one’s own reflection becomes a stranger in the mirror, we sometimes find ourselves lost in the face of desires we believed we understood best. When the fortress of identity,…
WIR: A Review of the German Drama and the Aesthetics of ‘Lack’—Waves of a Reunion Breaking 12 Years of Silence
We occasionally experience our daily routines—those we believed to be most secure—collapsing upon the appearance of a single person. We realize that buried memories have not vanished; they were merely latent, waiting for…
Interpreting the Ending of Netflix’s The Hunting Wives: A Forbidden Solidarity Engineered by Twisted Desire
We often admire the lives of others and attempt to replicate their trajectories. Yet, the moment that replication is complete, where does one’s original self disappear to? In an isolated environment, being captivated…
