Does cruelty lie in the fact that we have to love in these dire circumstances or the fact that these dire circumstances are the reasons we cannot truly love each other? 

The tale of The English Patient underlines the stinging romance so well, that it latches onto the deepest fear of love. This fear eats away at the soul as it grips onto it’s last breaths of love and warmth. Watching Count Almasy (Ralph Fiennes) narrate this spell of time…

"I tell you that if we are to tame darkness, we must first face that it exists.''

Albin Von Franz (William Dafoe) says out loud in an desperate attempt to convince that malice in other shape and form exists out there. There is a certain way in which Nosferatu hones in on the aspect of the whys and the what of this entity's existence. However, the origin is neither by chance nor a creation of some magical anomaly; Count Orlok's…

''Rooms seemed hotter when he was in them, rains fell straighter, clocks slowed...''

When I heard these words, I knew I was going to spend the whole film trying to see if these words truly held up and that is how the film draws you in right from the start. This mystic figure of Jesse James eluding Robert Ford is an alien emotion yet an innate feeling in all of us; the feeling of us wanting to know the people…