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The Shape of Water A Girl's Muteness A Creature's Aggression & Seemingly Magic Cures

THE SHAPE OF WATER
Seemingly Magic Cures

January 4, 2018 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Cruelty and misunderstanding can make you a monster or a mute. Guillermo del Toro’s compelling allegorical fable, The Shape of Water, shows us that quite well. We can say all the obvious things about this multi-layered film set in its backdrop of the Cold War and a high-security government laboratory in 1962 Baltimore. There’s loneliness …

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Seemingly Magic Cures
Blue Jasmine How Unreal Can A Character Become

BLUE JASMINE
Why A Character Is Unreal

July 31, 2014 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

What happened to Woody Allen in his film Blue Jasmine? This prolific filmmaker is well known for creating quirkily neurotic yet lovable characters—even characters with depth. However Jasmine French, the lead character in Allen’s latest film Blue Jasmine isn’t one of them. Jasmine, a Chanel-clad, Park Avenue socialite whose gilded life is unraveling before her, is …

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Why A Character Is Unreal

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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