An often delightful encapsulation of Poe’s work set in the drugs-devastated landscape of modern America, this series follows the choices of a brother and sister whose “deal with the devil” leads to consequences that they refuse to acknowledge. An indictment of the pharmaceutical industry while also filled with macabre and grisly horror deaths, the show tries to blend horror, drama, and the supernatural to tell a story of the weakness of the human mind, its smallness in the face of systems beyond its control, but also, ultimately, the agency and responsibility of the individual despite those circumstances.
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Ida 2013
Ida is a film I assigned to my class because I am a huge fan of Pawlikowski’s work and in rewatching it, I am moved to reconsider so many questions about faith, identity, and living one’s own life (agency and choice). It’s black and white composition is gorgeous and the ambiguity of Ida’s responses to earth-shattering news about her own past evoke actual thinking about what it means to belong to a culture, community, or group. Her interactions with her…
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