Ilsa
"I don't know what's right any longer."
Movies
Semiotics in/of movies…
Strasser
"Are you entirely certain which side you're on?"
Laszlo
"Each of us has a destiny, for good or for evil."
Ferrari
"This is a job for Signor Ferrari."
The Matrix
"Culture is the software of the mind."
Rope
Theory and practice can be worlds apart.
The Wonder
How to marshal myth, meaning, and embodied imagination…
Music Box
"Each new clue twists and turns Talbot’s perspective… and ours too."
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
"Versions of the Blue Fairy connote everything from faith to desire, dream, destination…"
Arrival
As she shifts languages she shifts worlds, perspectives and motivations…
Madigan
The cops are society’s super-ego, the girl is its id.
The Mack
Dandyism and flâneurie as radical/misguided street theater.
It Happened One Night
“Awww, I like mushy stuff!”
Eraserhead
Replete with images of loneliness, tedium, and paranoia.