Mulholland Drive: Hollywood’s Brilliant Cruelty, the Aesthetics of Loss, and the Interpretation of Diane’s Illusion
All human beings reconstruct memory. In the face of unendurable reality and tragedy, the brain devises the most beautiful form of lie to protect itself. Director David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive is a film…
Despite the Falling Snow: The Aesthetics of Female Narrative and Ending Interpretation Melting the Cold Winter of the Cold War
Human beings constantly experience isolation within the massive vortex of ideology and history. At the end of that lonely solitude, what we yearn for may ultimately be the gaze of just one person…
Two of Us: The Moment an Elderly Women’s Secret Queer Romance Becomes a Thriller
To love another human being completely is akin to a declaration that you will shoulder even the darkest secrets of the life they have built. The film Two of Us relentlessly digs into…
Blue Jean (2022) – Survival as Silence and Salvation as Solidarity: Interpreting the Intimate Fracture
When do we feel the most isolated? It might not be when the world denies us, but rather the moment we must excise a part of ourselves simply to survive. When institutions and…
Pages of a Girl (2008) Review: Literary Solidarity Across an Era of Oppression and In-Depth Analysis of Female Narrative
There are moments when someone’s entire world is completely shaken in the corner of a bookstore filled with the scent of faded paper, out of reach of others’ eyes. For those who live…
Tomboy (2011) Film Review: A Piercing Coming-of-Age Interpretation of Confronting the Self Beyond the Gaze of Others
The experience of wandering in confusion because one cannot fit into the external molds defined by the world is universal. Director Céline Sciamma’s film Tomboy (2011) does not treat the grand discourse of…
