The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

by Joseph A. Hazani July 21, 2014

What perseverance the human spirit has! When organizing my reflection on this film, I could not but think of the adulation I bestowed upon the Irish people for enabling a Cristy Brown to overcome his cerebral palsy. If the Irish people are to be honored for creating a man who exploded his will onto the world through a left foot, what can I say about the French for creating a man who can write a....

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Inside Llewyn Davis

by Joseph A. Hazani July 15, 2014

  Inside Llewyn Davis is a brief story, circling the life of a folk singer. I pause to avoid claiming Lleywn Davis is an ambitious folk singer, as he seems content to wallow in his lack of commercial success. Contrast that with other’s he surrounds himself with, who are trying their hands at becoming commercial products.   Yes. Products. One such compatriot is legally....

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Chef

by Joseph A. Hazani July 10, 2014

Chef is a film that splendidly captures the revolution against the suffocation of the Last Man horde. While until the time of tweets, the profit motive married to mass production generated the necessarily degenerate mass media, vulgarizing society as a necessity of catering to the base needs the masses subscribe always to, the individual now has his lethal poisoned darts to fend off the horde.....

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My Written Works

On the Struggling Artist: An Essay

A philosophical....

On the Christian Business Ethic: An Essay

Analysis of the role that Christian morality has played in the development of commerce and....

On the Necessity of Color in the Fine Arts: An essay

A philosophical exploration of color and its use in Renaissance, abstract and modern fine....

Towards an Understanding of Jesus Christ: An Essay

Nietzsche had incredible disdain for Christianity being "Judaized Rome", of the slave morality of Judaism creeping up and....