In this blog post, I’ll examine ‘Eastern Promises’ from the perspectives of the gangster genre and the noir anti-hero, exploring how the boundary between good and evil is shaken and eroded as the violent world and the ordinary world collide. The Catharsis Arising from the Reversal of Good and Evil: Gangster Films The origins of the gangster genre, which began in the United...
What questions does 「Stories We Tell」 raise beyond the portrait of a mother?
This blog post calmly follows how the documentary film 「Stories We Tell」 questions memory, truth, and the ethics of documentation beyond the life of one mother, examining the fundamental questions the film poses. 「Stories We Tell」 Synopsis The film opens with director Sarah Polley gathering her family and acquaintances, asking each to share their own story about her late mother. Diane...
Why do humans seek to cross the boundaries of God in the movie Splice?
This blog post examines why humans ultimately strive to cross the boundaries of God, focusing on the dangers and ethical questions that this desire to manipulate genes—as depicted in the movie Splice—brings forth. In the film ‘Splice’, ‘Dren’ is a lifeform accidentally created while a renowned scientist couple develops a protein to treat incurable human diseases using genetic recombination...
How does ‘Videodrome’ stimulate human instincts through gore films and pornography?
This blog post analyzes how gore films and pornography stimulate primal human impulses, focusing on David Cronenberg’s ‘Videodrome’. It also examines how these genres visually realize scenes difficult to experience in reality through cinematic expression. I enjoy provocative films. Among them, I particularly favor David Cronenberg’s ‘Videodrome’. The scenes where the...