In a stunning meditation on the idea of Natural Piety to human desires, Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams reveals to us the idea of cinema, as that which is sufficiently informed by a higher-moving power than mere playhouses. The mythical reality sternly imposed upon the Japanese soul through this anthropological masterpiece catapults us towards a higher view […]

Mr. Jim Henson portrays a terrifically fantastical storyline which echoes in a way which is accessible to pre-adolescence yet reverberates with the story of the Exodus – the idea of the physical liberation of people from unjust affliction. The necrosis of a world bent towards a social order of dominion, of absolute power over others, […]

In a world which is more than foreign, Bob Harris played by Bill Murray engulfs himself in the idiosyncratic culture of the Japanese which has been percolating the Earth for centuries. It is in the resignation of being lost on an island for a time and a season which opens the idea of being found. […]

It is better to suffer injustice than to commit it. This is the Moral expression of Socrates’ death so ingeniously portrayed with the film The Fugitive. That there is indeed a higher law than what men construct is wonderfully facilitated with the realization of the Liar in cinema.   That a false plan for the […]

In a marvel in art direction, staging, and theatrical effects, Alien demonstrates true originality in invoking the quintessential idea of survival horror. The notion of man’s desires to struggle for more life involves himself necessarily with the ever-present danger of experiencing the loss of his body. Terminally. For ever.   As cosmic beings, human cell […]

In a fun romp of a film, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ignites adventurous curiosity in the celebration of the mythical that man is permitted to play with, to inform his motivations towards ends which are necessarily spiritual – beyond animal life. It is in the significance of his aims which gives us […]

What is the truth? How can a man even know that about himself? Is peace of mind given to another brother enough to warrant salvation in the mind of the Lord?   These truths are not so self-evident. In the traversing vortex of merchandising dreams which manically fill the life goals of hundreds of millions, […]

Northman (directed by Robert Egger and co-written by Sjón) provides us with a dramatic epic of what it means to be Viking. What it means to be drenched in other-worldly motivations for honor, to compel the human body into directions which are far beyond being dogs.     The saga experience is realized in its […]

  What becomes of man when he develops the scientific reasoning that creates the capability of destroying his natural moral progress? Planet of the Apes provides a grand moral idea of the erstwhile beast that humans can form into. Yet what the film majestically leaves subtle is in the irreversibility of human degeneracy brought about […]

“War is hell,” a helicopter gunner answers matter-of-factly to a combat reporter as he finishes mowing down innocent Vietnamese farmers. It is an ugly truth that the conditions of survival, when coordinated at such massive industrial scales, creates a moment in American History which has been canonized by Filmmakers of great renown. In Mr. Stanley […]