Vanilla Sky -- It's All in His Head
From first moment to last, the movie Vanilla Sky, produced by Paramount Pictures and written and directed by Cameron Crowe, offers a confusing physical landscape based on a confusing mental landscape. The viewer i Continue Reading...
Zebra in the Room
Wore a purple dress. It matched my shoes
Which I bought the other day at Macy's.
The zebra said, "Why don't you have some dessert?"
To which I responded that I was getting fat.
"When I was a kid," the zebra said,
"I was fat." Continue Reading...
Disassociation, Personality Disorders, & Global Capitalism:
Open Your Eyes to the Fight Club
Fight Club is a cinematic adaptation of a novel of the same title; therefore, the novel will be referenced peripherally in this work. While the focus o Continue Reading...
Underlying this theme is the question, what would we do if we were in the same situation as Truman? Would we be able to deal with it as effectively as he does? In essence, when he realizes that something is not right in his perfect world, his respon Continue Reading...
movie industry in America has been controlled by some of the monolithic companies which not only provided a place for making the movies, but also made the movies themselves and then distributed it throughout the entire country. These are movie compa Continue Reading...
Abstraction and Composition: Some literary 'riffs' on the poetic vignettes of Cortazar
The Possibilities of Abstraction
Once upon a time, I knew a student of philosophy who was frustrated in love. He produced a proof demonstrating to his beloved t Continue Reading...