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Quo Vadis, Aida? 2020
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Whenever I “witness” the pain of others, a pain which I have not personally felt, I often think about some of what I read in The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry on the nature of suffering. The points that come to mind most often are as follows:
The first is that pain is language-destroying. It reduces us to wordlessness, to babble, to screams—a pre-language state. This is because whereas most interior states of consciousness have an accompanying object in…
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A Woman Under the Influence 1974
great but exhausting on so many levels…
this film brought up nearly forgotten childhood memories and fears of possible futures that for me all boil down to the terrifying burden and responsibility of loving others
I gotta watch some South Park or something now
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