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Sullivan's Travels: Personal reflections on screenwriters, screwball comedies, Sturges' characters, and shaky critiques from Hollywood
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Sullivan's Travels: Personal reflections on screenwriters, screwball comedies, Sturges' characters, and shaky critiques from Hollywood

Sullivan's Travels' simplistic final grace note only reminds us of how we've long since strayed from the path of comedy as a means of pathos. And if laughter won't wholly provide us with amnesia from our grim realities, it’ll at least make this exhausting thing we call "life" less strenuous for about 90+ minutes

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Longing for Love, Pick Me Gay: Understanding Myself and Ryosuke Hashiguchi’s ‘Like Grains of Sand’
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Longing for Love, Pick Me Gay: Understanding Myself and Ryosuke Hashiguchi’s ‘Like Grains of Sand’

The film is full of confessions. Perhaps, the characters think that doing such would heal their “medical” loneliness. To define, confession is a risk. Confessing does not guarantee an answer. Confession does not guarantee a favorable answer. The act of truth-telling entails uncertainty. If that uncertainty remains unresolved, looming anxiety will exist forever.

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Taming the Dog in ‘The Power of the Dog’: On the atmospheric illustration of power and manipulation
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Taming the Dog in ‘The Power of the Dog’: On the atmospheric illustration of power and manipulation

Slowly, the rabbit becomes Phil, falling into the trap of Peter as he develops an elevated sense of desire. Perhaps, a romantic attachment towards him. Hoping for a parallel situation, between what happened to him and Bronco Henry. An uncomfortable situation due to age differences, a predatory relationship.

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