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Lucas Friesen

Lucas Friesen

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POV: You're Black in a Jim Crow Era Reform School

Nickel Boys is a painful, unenjoyable, important watch. It will not fill you with hope. It will not make you laugh. It made a few people in the theatre's predominantly white audience cry. It is brutal. It's about trauma, racism and institutional abuse, and how difficult it is to cope with traumatic memories. These themes make Nickel Boys a tough movie to talk about, although there's a lot to discuss. The one thing you might already know about Nickel Boys is that it's shot entirely in a first-per

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"The Descent"... Into My Real, Actual Nightmares...

On a scale from 1-to-10, how much do you enjoy watching car accidents? That's a serious question. Granted, I'll plead The Fifth on that one, so as to avoid ending up on any sort of watchlist. There's something inherently human in not being able to look away from a horrible car accident. Sorry, collision. As Simon Pegg famously said in Hot Fuzz (2007): “Because ‘accident’ implies there's nobody to blame." There's a German word for that. Yeah, it's called “schadenfreude” which means “taking pleasu

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Anime After Dark

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How To Write A Sympathetic Character: Madoka VS Magical Girl Site

Writting sympathetic characters is a difficult yet crucial technique in storytelling. If I don't care about the characters for the particular show Im watching– I won't care about the show at all if not ever. One way I see many shows trying to evoke sympathy from their characters is by enforcing tragic backstories layered with devastating experiences to induce either relatable or sympathetic emotional responses. This can be effective most times unless done to a drastic degree which is typically s

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Farewell My Concubine is Beautifully Complex

Farewell My Concubine is a 1993 Beijing Film Studio movie directed by Chen Kaige. It stars Leslie Cheung with support from Gong Li and Zhang Fengyi. Based on Lilian Lee’s 1985 novel of the same name, it was adapted for the screen by Lu Wei. It jointly won the Palme d’Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival (along with Jane Campion’s The Piano). A few weeks after its release in China, it was banned by the politburo. After 14 minutes were cut by the censors, screenings were again allowed within the ye

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