By: Joe A while ago, I watched Requiem for a Dream for the first time in years. The next day, I was texting with some friends about it and I remember typing “requiem for a dream is our lives.” It seemed an intuitive thing to say at the time. I sent that to a group... Continue Reading →
By Joe “The trick is to find one item, one detail, and focus on it.” -Detective Somerset to Detective Mills Originally, I planned on writing about the various symbols seen throughout David Fincher’s 1997 movie Seven, but when I heard the line quoted above, I decided to focus only on the role that numbers... Continue Reading →
I watched Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket recently for the second time. The first time I watched it was more than a decade ago at least, so my second viewing was almost like seeing it for the first time. I did, of course, have vague memories of the training sequences and I remembered Private Pyle... Continue Reading →
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