Posts Tagged ‘envy’
THE FAVOURITE
How Envy Plays Its Part
In Sexual Favors To A Queen?
The historical jury is out as to whether Queen Anne of England (1702 -1714) and her two ladies were actual lovers. Yet, sex makes for a good story; and sex wields power – in both what it has to offer and withhold. Envy, though, is the real name of the sexual game at the center…
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CRAZY RICH ASIANS
How To Be The Winner
Over A Boyfriend’s Mother’s Envy
Jon Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians is about crazy wealth. But it’s really about so much more. It’s about the clashes between old money and new; privilege and disadvantage; American-born Asians and those calling Asia home; between following passion and giving into duty. Mostly it’s about a boyfriend’s mother’s envy. And, at the film’s center, we…
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