Family Plan (2016): An Interpretation of Tamed Relationships and Floating Desires Beneath the Shadow of Normativity
Every human being wanders between the desire to be fully understood and the instinct to remain protected within a social safe zone. There are moments when fitting oneself into the orbit of normativity…
Nothing Like the Sun: The Violence of Salvation, the Temperature of Truth Blossoming at Its End
In an era when personal desire and identity were framed as “illness” under the grand pretext of religion, how many lives has humanity destroyed in the name of salvation? The film Nothing Like…
Love Tech Review: An In-Depth Analysis of Algorithmic Breakup Predictions and the Expiration Date of Emotion
We live in an era where we trust algorithms to find our soulmates. A single swipe of a finger yields a partner perfectly tailored to our tastes, but paradoxically, the human muscles required…
Love Is a Map (2022): The Aesthetics of Female Queer Narrative on the Coordinates of Loss
We only begin to look back at the coordinates of our past when we find ourselves in the center of loss. When the grief of losing a loved one mingles with the lingering…
Submerge (2016): The Boundary Between Control and Indulgence, an In-Depth Analysis of Youthful Desire’s Cruel Drift
The more we tighten our grip to seize the illusion of perfection, the sooner we find ourselves slipping through our own fingers. The societal standard of versatility demanded of today’s youth, and the…
You Can Live Forever (2022): The Collapse and Redemption of First Love Beyond Religious Constraint, and an Interpretation of the Open Ending
Universal human life constantly wavers between the warmth of the “here and now” and the conceptual promise of a “guaranteed eternity.” Would we turn our backs on the entire world to keep a…
