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ELLE Triumph & Perversion Where Does Triumph Come In?

ELLE
Trauma & Perversion
Where Does Triumph Come In?

April 19, 2017 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Trauma. We know it. We experience it. We’re left with its aftermath – when Director Paul Verhoeven’s “noir thriller,” Elle, careens to its conclusion. Leaving the theater, my mind was spinning.  As Verhoeven says, the film has: “an enormous amount of ambiguity, gaps that are in the narrative on purpose for the audience to fill in.” …

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Trauma & Perversion
Where Does Triumph Come In?
TRUMBO The Dynamics of Fear It's Ravages Ruins & Undoing

TRUMBO & The Dynamics Of Fear
It’s Ravages, Ruins, & Undoing

December 14, 2015 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

“Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don’t understand. Take the Einstein theory. Taxes. Love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.” – Dalton Trumbo Dalton Trumbo is right. Things we don’t understand do happen. And, some things we don’t understand invoke …

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It’s Ravages, Ruins, & Undoing

Inspiration

“We come to Film and TV to find our hidden stories. If we look deeply into a character’s psyche, there is much to see about ourselves.”

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