What exactly is a mental disorder? Is it a personality or brain behavior that is abnormal, or unusual when measured against the typical, the ordinary, the mediocre, the average? Are those with such mentalities that differ from the mean disturbed or at least unnatural and therefore must be medicated? Clearly, as we can see in Silver Lining’s Playbook, the medication serves the purpose not to....

  This is a challenging work, but not as challenging toward becoming a David Lynch mindfuck. Meaning, the writer/director spares us from the headache of having to transcend the expected cinematic grammar that has been used since the artistic medium’s creation and has predictably been accorded based on its rational correspondence with the ordering of human conscious experience. Yet....

  A Short History of Decay shows the decay of a family, even though it cleverly aims to concentrate on the ailing aging of the protagonist’s parents. Nathan’s father has just had a stroke, compelling him to fly down to nurse him back to health, while his mother would be incapable at the task due to her moderate Alzheimer’s which is slowly erasing her personality with each....