The opening of Last Love portrays two deaths. One of a wife, and another of a man who does not know how to live without her. The sorrow that fills his heart to replace the joy that she provided pulls the audience directly into his grasp. We are uncertain that we are marionettes being exploited like an emotional vampire who has found a new neck to bite. Which is to say, the....

  The joys of living a privileged life. Even amongst the absolute privilege of being an American, there is the relative privilege of having the luxury to choose to live as someone who can only subsist. Which is the choice afforded to the main protagonist, as he willfully abandons his world of ideas that may or may not correspond to reality, and instead decides to pick....

  Stuck in Love coyly weaves together an ensemble piece of three different layers of romantic relations. It’s not exactly pretending to emulate Love Absolutely and its greater flurry at examining the different shapes that it expresses itself in the human condition. Notice I am reluctant to use the word “love”; it is too liberally applied here, like too much mayonnaise on bread,....