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Parasite Hunger and Humiliation Gone Wild

PARASITE
Hunger & Humiliation Gone Wild

January 23, 2020 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Hunger can lead to desperate acts. And, it does –  in Bong Joon-Ho’s startling new film, Parasite. Plus, we find. if you’re hungry and helpless (emotionally, that is), you can even become a parasite. The kind of hunger we witness in many of Parasite’s characters leads to various forms of exploitation – of the class …

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Hunger & Humiliation Gone Wild
Mark Webber's Secret Movie Shhh...It's About His Mother

MARK WEBBER’S SECRET MOVIE
Shhhh … It’s About His Mother

September 6, 2015 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

A good mother can make a bad situation better. I just read Valentina Valentini’s piece in Indie Wire, Mark Webber Wants Your Money But He Can’t Tell You Why, about actor/director Mark Webber’s Kick Starter Campaign. He’s raising money for a movie he’s making about his mother. It’s a secret, but he did give his …

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Shhhh … It’s About His Mother

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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