Ueda Akinari, a prominent scholar, poet, and phyisican in Edo era Japan, once wrote, on topic of poverty or wealth, "A Buddhist will explain this outcome in terms of actions in former lives; a Confucian will tell you about the Will of Heaven." Yet, both analysis skirts the issue of materiality of cause and effect, seeking to metaphysicalize the physical. Oshii, in Patlabor 2, seeks to (at first blush) physicalize the metaphysical, instead. Nebulous concepts like, "Legacies," "Peace," and, "Colonialism,"…
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The Throne 2015
One of the most famous paintings by René Magritte is the Treachery of Images, where a pipe is not just a pipe, or so the caption says. Yet, the image is unmistakably a pipe. The intentional paradox is what makes the image so potent, of course. While the director Lee Joon-ik's or the trio of writers' intention is something we are not privy to, intentionally or not, the Throne operates under the same kind of paradox. There is a story…
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