The Insatiable Trajectory of the (Lacanian) Real in McQueen’s “Shame” & von Trier’s “Melancholia”
“Both films reveal that the Real of desire hides behind the objective coordinates of our subjective freedoms.”
“Both films reveal that the Real of desire hides behind the objective coordinates of our subjective freedoms.”
All we really are: containers for memories. Some change and some bend into others; others haunt us with the sharpest clarity; others pretend to last. The human mind is a […]
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“Thus, Carrie’s dilemma: balancing her competing relationships based on their proximity-time relationship.”
“Their desire is rooted in the same empty desperation, as their objects of affection shift along a continually reconstituting chain of meanings and emotions.”
“His introspection starts with identifying himself as an “idea” and as an “abstraction,” but concludes with his realization that he is, in himself, the absence or void: “I simply am not there”— Bateman’s conception of himself starts as a Signified and evaporates into a single, obfuscated Signifier.”
“He wears his lifestyle on his sleeve—and it costs more than your car.”
“As Laroche and Barker outline, Lauren and Sean, then, operate in the dictates of a subjective world defined by the regulatory discursive hedonism that marks their vapid endeavors. Sean is defined by Lauren as much as Lauren is defined by Sean. “
“ …Like an ecosystem of fish pulsating together in a harmonious ocean, each teacher became my own portable, academic literacy…”
“…the film re-examines love in a way in which hasn’t been done in cinema before.
Her not only explores the seemingly irrevocable seamlessness in which humans and technology become one. This is a constant thematic undertow in the film’s plot and narrative…”
Tropics of Meta “Often like a ghost in the shadows, the mother haunts film noir,” observed Kelly Oliver and Benigno Trigo in 2003. “She is mentioned but never seen, yet […]
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In her book about Romantic Comedies, Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre, Tamar McDonald contends, “By withholding the revelation of the man’s deceit, the…
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The 2000 movie American Psycho is one of the most misunderstood and debated movies in cinema history because of its social, linguistic, gender, existential,…
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In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, we find a powerful social commentary that offers a bleak outlook on the wage laborer, the proletariat, as Marx…
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