by Joseph A. Hazani October 8, 2014
War. What is it good for? The rhetorical question is stereotypically created when a film concerns itself with the Vietnam conflict which escalated into a war. Yet with Good Morning Vietnam we see not a guilt complex that holds the hand of the stereotype which seeks in its effort to humanize people mutilating themselves while trying, ultimately in a higher plane, to accomplish the same goal which....
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by Joseph A. Hazani October 4, 2014
Short Term 12 illustrates the importance in the investment of the future of society’s well-being. Children are 20% of the population yet 100% of the future. But why should anyone care how the future ends up? Why does it matter to leave the world in a better place than how it was given to us? Why bother at all? These questions are not answered directly by the film. But they are significant to....
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by Joseph A. Hazani October 2, 2014
It has become a law of nature to follow Jesse Eisenberg’s projects. And The Double simply confirms it. While the setting veers too much into Brazil dystopic hysteria, simply with a dash of Fight Club thrown into the bowl before all the ingredients are mixed, there still is an intricate blend at work here. For in both of the aforementioned films we do not see the inner turmoil of....
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