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...
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...
"David and I are going to have a baby..." Accompanied by an absolutely miserable expression. She says "going to" as if she's positive about her decision to go through with the pregnancy, but her inflection flips the meaning of her words around. The subtext is...
During the fascist Franco regime in Spain, Basque nationalists eventually rose to the point of committing domestic terrorism in the name of social change. The Platform aligns with this swift glide into barbarism by showing the flaws in "trickle-down" economics...
A History of Violence: The Scars of American History By, Kristin Grady Is violence part of human nature or is it a cycle we can break? Canadian director David Cronenberg didn�t intend to glorify violence in 2005�s A History of Violence. The film is full of stark, color-based...
�Greed and disgust� are Patrick�s only self-proclaimed identifiable emotions. These are the two sides of the Freudian Id. �Want� and �Do not want� rule his every decision.�
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