Remaining Men Together
In Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, the narrator is afflicted by a rare form of insomnia which prevents him from getting any sort of sleep unless he experiences an extreme rush of emotion. At first, he frequents various support groups to get this rush, including one for testicular cancer survivors called “Remaining Men Together.” As part of […]
Gilman and Mental Illness
“The Yellow Wallpaper” is praised for accurately describing one woman’s terrifying and slow descent into madness from her own perspective, no less. She unknowingly describes her unusual symptoms, too distracted by the ugly wallpaper around her to reflect what’s actually happening to her. But what actually is happening to her? Gilman writes with such conviction that … Continue reading Gilman and Mental Illness →
Life of Galileo
After reading the play Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, it made me question how we as humans come to the idea of truth and what is part of a discourse. Anything and everything can be brought into question of how valid it is and whether if it is deemed worthy of being knowledge by […]
A Not-So-Silent Review of the Silent Movies
So, I’m a nice person, right? I see Berlin: Symphony of A Great City begin with a speeding train. Okay, seems…
God. Guts. Glory.
Disclaimer: This blog post is essentially an extension of my essay (haha). Some nights I just can’t help looking up at the moon, admiring it and all its beauty, and thinking to myself, “what in the world was Galileo thinking as he looked into the exact same moon in front of me.” I believe that Galileo’s greatest asset was not his intelligence, but his courage and audacity. It was through his courage did he dare to question centuries of teachings and knowledge. He firmly believed that through enough evidence and…read more
The Cinematic Genius of Vertov
One element that stood out for me from Vertov’s Man With A Movie Camera was the sheer creativity he demonstrates with the camera. The camera isn’t just a window into the world of film but a character itself; Vertov uses it in different ways, not only to communicate literary meaning but also to show what was possible … Continue reading The Cinematic Genius of Vertov
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
So here are some things I’ve noticed from watching this film that really caught my eye… In ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’, there is this huge use of jagged landscapes, spiky objects, tilted walls and windows, blades, things looking sharp like knives, crooked asymmetry etc. I mean, even the title sequences’ font is jagged and […]
Seminar Presentation: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
In the first half of Monday’s lecture by Jason, we discussed greatly in depth how all of the artistic decisions, even those that seem rather insignificant or minute, in the film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari greatly influence everything about how we, the audience, perceive the storyline. The sets and exaggerated movements of the silent actors in […]
Implications of Epic Theatre on Consumerist Society
One of the most interesting points I took from seminar was the discussion regarding the unpopularity of epic theatre in society today. Epic theatre had already been established before Brecht in the early to mid-20th century, however he was the … Continue reading →
Why the Cabinet of Doctor Calligari illustrates an important argument about the horror genre:
Horror films seem to reflect, in their plot, form, mise-en-scene, and other technical elements, the society in which they exist. The Cabinet of Doctor Calligari is an illustration of Weimar Germany, in an expressionistic sense, because the film is … Continue reading →