Some lies can provoke a snowball effect and impact society in unbelievable ways. Moreover, in an increasingly polarized world, every piece of information or incident brings in multiple actors who manipulate truth…
Tag: Suspense
Vertigo opens in perhaps the most perfect way: three men are running across rooftops in San Francisco. The sky is a perfect combination of black and blue – the moon’s light spreading…
‘Restless’, on Netflix, is a frustrating film to watch. The initial glimmer of hope is shaped by a trying moral dilemma for Thomas: tend to an internal investigation of his precinct’s actions,…
At a moment in the film, when the married couple, Thomas and Mia, are exchanging a moment of sensual closeness, they are stunned by the sudden banging on the door of their…
American youth and violence have been the subject of numerous films as of late. The constant increase in mass shooting and gun violence, in general, has paved the way for a lot…
Hitchcock and his Emotional Minefield: In his autobiography Gama no Abura, Akira Kurosawa in an attempt to explain the meaning of his pièce de résistance, Rashomon, says “If you focus on the…