Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond, or the not-so-subtle art of not giving a fuck.
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, or the not-so-subtle art of not giving a fuck.
Category: Film
A Clockwork Orange: Ultra-Violent Self-Censorship
It’s funny how the colours of the like real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.
The Shining: Kubrick Transforms King’s Novel into a Uncanny Narrative of American Colonialism
"The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living."
Mulholland Drive: Destructive Worlds of Fantasy and Reality on the Winding Roads of Lynch Angeles.
Mulholland Drive: Destructive Worlds of Fantasy and Reality on the Winding Roads of Lynch Angeles.
Lost Highway: Suppression of Reality in Lynch Angeles.
Lynch Angeles Many miles away from Lynchtown lies the dreamy city of Lynch Angeles. Lynch Angeles is a city where dreams become reality; a city where people can reinvent themselves; a city where people can go to forget about their troubles. This fantasy world of obfuscated dreams, obsessive desires and subverted narratives, is rooted within… Continue reading Lost Highway: Suppression of Reality in Lynch Angeles.
Blue Velvet: Twin Worlds of Desire Within the American Idyll of Lynchtown.
"Lynchtown is a cute, typically American, small town, in the midst of an ocean of forest... a base camp for an adventure of the imagination… a surface with only one side… a façade with nothing to hide"- Michel Chion Lynchtown: Lumberton, USA. It is in the fictional town of Lumberton where we are first introduced to… Continue reading Blue Velvet: Twin Worlds of Desire Within the American Idyll of Lynchtown.
Moonrise Kingdom: Cultural Tools of Escapism Enabling a Storm of Youthful Rebellion.
It is no secret that family dysfunction and Wes Anderson films go hand in hand. Whether it be the tumultuous Tenenbaums reverting to their teenage-selves to deal with the return of their abrasive patriarch, or the three brothers of The Darjeeling Limited going on a spiritual train journey across India to exorcise the guilt of missing… Continue reading Moonrise Kingdom: Cultural Tools of Escapism Enabling a Storm of Youthful Rebellion.
