What this essay is about: Your life as a cinematic experience, narratives as emotional crutches. Question you may ask yourself halfway through this essay: How many times can a writer make reference to John Cusack while ostensibly reviewing a film starring Colin Firth? Relevant quotation from my notebook from a couple weeks back: Bitten by the wind, turned around fast, and punched in the face. A frozen moment in a sea of time. Legend: She/ Her=Ex-Girlfriend I spent Tuesday in shock. It was 6 PM when my driver’s training class started and I was sitting ignorantly in the corner of the ...Read More

A Single Man on A Single Man : A Breakup Essay Slash Film Review

Spoiler alert for them folks still preparing for An Education from Lone Scherfig. I shall spoil everything, just like the trailer. Let me throw it out right now that I have a thing with trailers: I can never make it to the end of them. Without any brain-blasting logic behind said rationale, here’s why: halfway through a trailer, if the film looks dumb, I close it and look for another. If I am SOLD (in which my viewing of the mentioned film is expected or appropriate), then continued viewing will only lead me to the inevitable condition wherein more images ...Read More

An Education in the crux of Art Cinema