This film shows that all love can be valid and pleasurable and we as a society should be more open about the possibilities of what consenting adults can and want to do with partner’s.
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Apocalypse Now 1979
Title: Apocalypse Now and the Ruins of the Psyche: Colonialism, Ritual, and the Mythic Descent into the Heart of Human Chaos
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Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now is more than an anti-war film; it is a psychological and mythic journey that dissects the human condition through the lens of colonialism, ritual, and the collapse of order. This thesis positions the film as a layered narrative exploring humanity’s confrontation with chaos, using Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as a foundation while…
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Laura 1944
Title: Laura and the Eroticism of Absence: Fetish, Spectral Desire, and the Cinematic Sublime
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Otto Preminger’s Laura (1944) is more than a noir mystery; it is a meta-cinematic study of the erotic charge in absence and the ontology of desire. This essay explores how Laura transforms absence into a fetishized presence, engaging with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Derridean notions of différance, and Edmund Burke’s concept of the sublime. Laura Hunt, simultaneously a character and a void, occupies a liminal space where…Translated from by -
Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019
The title of the film is more than that, it’s a portrait as much as any film can be, and the titular lady on fire is the raw emotion that is combusting while image and sound morph and our senses reverberate. Love is not fleeting, it is as eternal as a portrait. Can we control our fate? Are we able to resist, or do we merely float along the path that is forged for us as we wipe away our tears of what should have been.
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