Rafiki: Fractures of Oppression and the Solidarity of Love Hidden Behind Radiant Colors
When the gaze of others becomes the standard of life, we live with our truest selves concealed. The film Rafiki captures the radiant yet precarious journey of two women who set out to…
Petit Mal (2022) – An Imperfect Triangular Balance, the Multidimensional Jealousy Proven by Absence, and the Aesthetics of the Ending
We often seek to draw a perfect circle in our relationships with others, yet love constantly pricks us in unexpected places, much like the sharp corners of a triangle. Utilizing the framework of…
Film The Venus Effect Review: An Interpretation of Existential Awakening and Solidarity Beyond the Boundaries of Queer Identity
Our lives often lose their way in the middle of the plains we believed to be the safest. To those who live with their desires erased inside the peaceful fence of familiarity, the…
It’s in the Water (1997): A Chronicle of Liberation and the Certainty of Love Through the Era of Gay Panic
Have you ever suddenly felt a profound sense of isolation while gliding along the perfect life trajectory prescribed by others? We often ignore our deepest, most authentic desires to fulfill the obligation of…
Benedetta Interpretation: A Sacred and Provocative Holy War of Two Women Who Substituted Desire for Faith
In a turbulent era when every regulation controlled humanity in the name of God, there existed an individual who justified her most secret desires through the holiest language of divinity. The relationship between…
We Can’t Go to Heaven, But We Can Love: A Narrative of Redemption in a Female Queer Melodrama Born from the Orbit of Fin-de-Siècle Violence
The atmosphere of the late 1990s always flows with ambivalent emotions of endings and beginnings. The historical setting of 1999 is not merely a stage to showcase retro props. It is an inevitable…
