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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
Black Panther What Heartlessness Has To do with An Abandoned Kid's Need for Power

BLACK PANTHER
What Heartlessness Has to Do With
An Abandoned Kid’s
Need For Power?

February 18, 2019 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Heartlessness, and what causes it, is the theme in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther; as far as I can see. More importantly, Black Panther shows us how heartlessness can “create a monster,” in an abandoned child now-man, with his slow-burning hate; vengeful rage; and need for power. And, certainly, we witness what heartlessness has to do …

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What Heartlessness Has to Do With
An Abandoned Kid’s
Need For Power?
The Grand Budapest Hotel What Fake Persona's Cover Up

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
What Fake Personas Cover-Up

February 11, 2015 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Why does someone create an illusion of who they are? Wes Anderson, a master of psychological ironies, tells us quite a lot about that subject in The Grand Budapest Hotel. At the center of the film is M. Gustave trying to live as someone he is not. All around him are juxtapositions of barbarism with …

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What Fake Personas Cover-Up

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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