‘Downfall’ (2004) Film Review

by Joseph A. Hazani June 5, 2025

In Downfall, the inevitability of grandiosity of a nation, and the megalomania of its relentless hell-bent leader, has a lengthy treatment in the observation of an unending belief in the righteousness of German people per se.    The film appropriately lets the viewer into what is only imagined in the constant learning to the downfall of Adolf Hitler and his captivation of German....

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‘The Devil Wears Prada’ (2006) Film Review

by Joseph A. Hazani June 3, 2025

Are excellent demands worth the price? Is the jockeying unto prestige all there is in life? Or is this just the life of the city, and its calibers of highness? No doubt Middletown, Ohioville lacks the same gusto of the ambitious striving for more worldly acclaim. Yet they also lack the vocabulary of cerulean. Is that such a bad thing?   No - the film is not attempting to contrast the....

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‘This Property is Condemned’ (1966) Film Review

by Joseph A. Hazani May 31, 2025

What is Pollyanish but the fanciful? And what is Nature but the destroyer of fanciful ideas, towards grounding the self into the more ultimatum of existence? To choose more life not less, then, requires a focused attention on what is right around the corner. Because the beer is that easy to be had and lost.   In the clever scripting by Mr. Coppola et al of a one-act Tennessee Wiliams....

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On the Struggling Artist: An Essay

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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....