It doesn’t take much thought to realize that the Circle of Life is secretly a villain that entails eating/killing other animals, getting eaten, or starving, all under the guise of “the natural order of the food chain”
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#12 - Black Swan: Inner Whore vs. Outer Madonna
What happens when you try to be two different people at once? Turns out it just might kill you
#11 - Whiplash: The Myth of the Mad Genius
What’s more valuable to you - happiness, or success? That’s what director Damien Chazelle seems to be asking the audience. If you are successful, does that somehow justify going mad? If you choose not to even try for success, is that some sort of creeping madness in its own right?
#9 - Edward Scissorhands: the Autism We All Needed
Being disabled in an ableist society feels like having scissors for hands.
#4 - Blade Runner 2049 - Your Story Doesn't Matter
Our dynamic duo explore societal associations between madness and biological determinism as well as the factors that lead marginalized groups not to be trusted as credible experts of their own feelings and experiences.