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Wolf Children 2012
Wolf Children presents an allegory for the mixed-race experience and double consciousness. It explains the struggle of wrestling with one's identity within power relations and racial hierarchy. I am reminded of Cherrie Moraga's "La Guerre," in which she explains the phenomenon of fair-skinned Latine people conforming and assimilating into whiteness, abandoning their Latine culture to be in closer proximity to privilege. This colonization of the body maintains a status quo that Wolf Children aims to resist. By holding on to…
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Barefoot Gen 1983
A documentary of the WWII Hiroshima atomic bombing. While not particularly informative, it was very bleak and revealed the harsh cruelty of war. Made me cry, so that's good enough for me !
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The Tatami Galaxy 2010
Tatami Galaxy tells you not to worry about the 'mistakes' you have made in life. There will always be an alternative, better route that perhaps you could have taken. However, when we live life in the past, we lose sight of what is in the present. Rather than wishing for a better life, focus on the change you can make right now, and in this process, you will find that your wish comes true. Pretty good!
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Serial Experiments Lain 1998
At first, I thought this was unnecessarily pretentious and difficult to understand, but I now realize my brain had not yet developed. WITH MY NEW KNOWLEDGE AND INTEREST, the trans-humanistic perspectives discussed are dense and present a future, perhaps fantastical, that imagines and opens possibilities, philosophical quandaries, and ethical concerns for what 'the wired' may look like. I love that not only is it a critique of the world today, despite being produced in 1998, but it also offers an…
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