The struggles of negotiating one's identity with the only ones who can, where complications arise in realizing that they can't give you what you want nor what you need but precisely what you deserve. Part of this diasporic searching comes with it expectations of easy answers, of arriving in a homeland and meeting long-lost family at which a fractured identity becomes pieced together and a general sense of belonging is suddenly found. Freddie's impromptu but deliberate detour to Korea is…
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Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime 1968
comes a fractured mind lost in time, and so we experience the melancholy of memory; a fascination of the past that we can re-live when we want, except Claude is doomed to re-live it against his
ese brief glimpses we learn more about him, who Claude really is and why he attempted suicide. We see him re-living shadows of his past, everyday moments that belie a broken-down man. But there is an extraordinariness within the juxtaposition of the ordinary, the…
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Lady Vengeance 2005
The last in his Vengeance trilogy certainly marks his most developed take on the throughline, a revenge film that differs from its predecessors in not just warning of the profligatory nature of vengeance but almost-entirely abandoning its very representation – at least in any cathartic sense. Vengeance, here, is mostly abstracted to its concepts as they relate to the vessels they inhabit, the carrying out of such and its elaborations hidden behind a folding screen such that we the audience…
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Cowboy Bebop: The Movie 2001
About life, of choosing the life we want to live and living fully in the present and making the most of this short life we have in the world in spite of, and because of, it being all we can do.
I think, in so many ways, Knockin' on Heaven's Door is the greatest film at encapsulating this. Cowboy Bebop is known for a lot of things but one thing that always stood out to me was its dedication to…
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The Worst Person in the World 2021
We can't help but feel like the worst person in the world. Not to our friends necessarily, or our families for that matter, or even to the one(s) we share a bed with, but to ourselves. Decisions we made that we can't really call 'self-destructive', that's not quite it, but destroys our lives anyways. Destroys what we've built the last few years of our lives, and with no idea of how we'll survive after. Why do we do this to…
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