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Thelma 2017
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I understand that explicitly this film is about religious repression and trauma in relation to being gay, but I think there's a second more universal interpretation, about the specific kind of abuse that can exist in a relationship between parents and children due to the power imbalance inherent in that relationship.
Thelma's powers are decidedly ambiguous: 'If you truly desire something, with body and mind, there's something within you that can make it happen.' And I take them to really…
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The Holdovers 2023
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There's a scene early on in this film where Paul Hunham criticises the entitlement of his students. And as much as this film may be about finding love and acceptance where one cannot expect it, ultimately it is about entitlement.
Because the rich, blue blooded boys, of past and present, whose presence haunts the dark wooded corridors and grand libraries of this school, are entitled. And their entitlement depends on the denial of others. The entitlement of Kountze to the…
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