Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama arrives like a Molotov cocktail lobbed into the wedding-industrial complex. Zendaya’s Emma and Robert Pattinson’s Charlie are the sort of couple neoliberal culture sells us as aspirational: cultured, attractive, ostensibly secure in Boston’s creative class. He’s a museum curator; she’s a literary editor. Their meet-cute is awkward-cute, their engagement photoshoots absurdly… Continue reading The Drama of Sublimation: Ugly Truths, Radicalised Youth and the Crisis of Connection
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Mickey 17: A Sci-Fi Satire That’s Goofy and Brilliant
If you have followed Bong Joon-ho’s directorial career, from the monster movie The Host to his Oscar triumph Parasite, you know the man has made critiquing capitalism his cinematic mission. His films are rarely subtle. Instead, they function as bold, often blood-soaked indictments of systems that commodify human existence. What makes his work unique, though, is how he… Continue reading Mickey 17: A Sci-Fi Satire That’s Goofy and Brilliant