Tag Archives: Mental Health

Analysis

Joker: Joaquin Phoenix Dancing with Himself

Joker: Joaquin Phoenix Dancing with Himself By Kristin Grady Arthur Fleck sheds his identity like a snake's skin or the ashes of a phoenix! Get it? Joaquin Phoenix's Joker emerges as he embraces the madness within him. The implicit meaning is eloquently externalized by Arthur's improvised dances, exposing his innermost...

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Jacob’s Ladder: A Proxy War

The Vietnam timeline continues throughout the entire film, the truth slowly revealed in bits and pieces as it comes back to Jake. In the modern timeline, we're never sure if it's really happening or the entire thing is a fabrication...

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The Silence of the Lambs: Interrogating Reality

Clarice demonstrates several of these methods when extracting information from the willfully tight-lipped Dr. Lecter. By assessing these scenes, we can identify real-life practices employed by the FBI, how that reflects current and past practices, and fictional characters displaying admirable traits to which we hope all law enforcement agents aspire.

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