A Look Inside: Promising Young Woman Promising Young Woman (2020) is not just a film; it’s a cinematic Molotov cocktail, shattering expectations and igniting fierce conversations about trauma, justice, and the intoxicating, corrosive allure of revenge. Emerald Fennell’s directorial debut masterfully dissects the complexities of a woman, Cassie (Carey Mulligan), consumed by the brutal revengeContinue reading “A Deep Dive into Revenge and Its Echoes”
Category Archives: Film Analysis
The Duality of Love & Lust
The Internal Dilemma Between Chaos & Calm In recent years within various TV series and films I have come to notice more and more narratives focusing on characters, particularly female characters, that struggle with the internal dilemma between chaos and calm. What I mean by that is essentially these characters we are watching tend toContinue reading “The Duality of Love & Lust”
The Inner Lives of Teenage Girls
A Look Inside: The Virgin Suicides I felt it was time to look further into Sofia Coppola’s debut film, The Virgin Suicides I felt it was time to look further into Sofia Coppola’s debut film, The Virgin Suicides (1999) and how it explores the weight of societal expectations on teenage girls through the use ofContinue reading “The Inner Lives of Teenage Girls”
Life on Earth
A Look Inside: Another Earth & Melancholia “Within our lifetimes, we’ve marveled as biologists have managed to look at ever smaller and smaller things. And astronomers have looked further and further into the dark night sky, back in time and out in space. But maybe the most mysterious of all is neither the small norContinue reading “Life on Earth”
Capturing the Feelings of Being Lost & Lonely
A Look Inside: Garden State The 2004 film Garden State written and directed by Zach Braff is one of those films that sticks with you after watching, at least for me. Even 17 years later the film still resonates with audiences, especially those who’ve dealt with depression or even just the feelings of being lostContinue reading “Capturing the Feelings of Being Lost & Lonely”
The Controversial A-Word in Film
JONAH: You know what I think you should do? Take care of it.JAY: Tell me you don’t want him to get an “A word.”JONAH: Yes, I do, and I won’t say it for little Baby Ears over there, but it rhymes with shmish-mortion.” I’m just saying — hold on Jay, cover your ears– you should get an “shmish-morshmion”Continue reading “The Controversial A-Word in Film”
4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
My next film on the topic of ‘abortion in films’ is Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) which discusses the controversial issue of abortion in Communist Romania during the last years of the Ceausescu regime. The film follows two college students, Gabita (Laura Vasiliu) and Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) on Gabita’s searchContinue reading “4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days”
The American Suburban Lifestyle
A Look Inside: Revolutionary Road This month with it being Women’s History Month I decided to focus a couple of blog posts on a subject rarely addressed in films that focuses on the female character. To start we will look at Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road (2008) which covers a wide variety of issues from conformingContinue reading “The American Suburban Lifestyle”
The Undoing of Love & Marriage
A Look Inside: Blue Valentine Some might say that this week’s blog post might be a little unusual since today is Valentine’s Day but it is important to note that Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance, 2010) speaks volumes to the reality of love. While there is tragedy, heartbreak and pain it is a film that showcasesContinue reading “The Undoing of Love & Marriage”
A 5 to 7 Kind of Love
A Look Inside: 5 to 7 WARNING: Contains Spoilers! Some may say that an affair conducted between the hours of 5 and 7 p.m. may suggest trappings of a clichéd rom-com, but 5 to 7 (2014) is much more unconventional than that. The film 5 to 7 was written and directed by Victor Levin (mostly known forContinue reading “A 5 to 7 Kind of Love”
The Fade Out: A Movie Blog 