MDA SOC MO MonoEssay [Oldboy] A Mind That Doesn’t Break After 15 Years of Imprisonment I’d like to talk about Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy from a slightly unusual angle: what does this film tell us about how an individual survives…
HUM SOC MDA ART LIF MO MonoEssay [Portrait of a Lady on Fire] Learning the Art of the Gaze in a World Without Men French film “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” has been labeled in many ways: a lesbian love story, an LGBTQ+ movie, a feminist film, a French…
SOC MDA LIF MO MonoEssay [I Killed My Mother] The Distance Between a Mother and Son’s Love and Hate Xavier Dolan’s feature debut I Killed My Mother is a film I want to unpack casually from a gay male perspective. I’m writing with a certain…
SOC MDA HUM MO MonoEssay [The Handmaiden] Desire, Power, and the Pleasure of Rewriting the Script Park Chan-wook’s Korean film The Handmaiden is a work I want to talk about from a gay man’s perspective: casually, but with a bit of…