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Punch-Drunk Love [2002]: A Journey Towards Self-Acceptance

By Charlene Winsor
A common quality that many humans share is consistent self-doubt. We are our own worst critics, which can impede our ability to take pride in our accomplishments. This self-doubt also places limits on our means to embrace human connection, creating further alienation and isolation. Spiralling loneliness can manifest in depression, anger, and overall poor health and well-being. “Punch-Drunk Love” is a 2002 film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson told through the eyes of a toilet…
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Charlene Winsor
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Incendies (2010) ‘Mashup’ Review: The Horrors Of Revelations

By High on Films
Within all the earth shattering revelations and horror, there’s a sense of hope in Incendies. This very core of hope makes it a more memorable and essential viewing experience. It tells you to add up all the anger and rage that slowly kills you from within along with the bonds that are a necessity. The final answer, though overtly personal and devastating, still feels relevant. Making Incendies an absorbing and emotional film that deserves accolades…
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Dead Man [1995]: The Poetry Of The Sinners

By Shikhar Verma
Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man is a film of strange beauty. A film where Jarmusch lifts and circles the ‘western’ genre over its own head to construct a psychedelic uproar of gunslingers and poets, of spirits and redeemers and of Americans and Native-Americans. Dead Man deconstructs the very idea of conventional western with it’s deeply rooted metaphors and symbolism. It is a translucent work of existential trauma hidden under the rug of civilisational decay and a…
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Shikhar Verma