Credits: wallpaper cave "there's nothing fun about the game. No light relief. Just one piece of nauseating unpleasantness after another."- Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw "Real ain't pretty" -the game's primary marketing slogan There is no dearth of violent media in the video game or movie industry. But there are very few pieces of media which are … Continue reading On Culture: Kane & Lynch Dog Days, Media and Violence
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Perfect Days and Death Stranding: they are more than about cleaning toilets and delivering packages
Credits: jamesleslie @wallpapercave Hirayama observes, and at times captures the world around him. Underneath the imperceptible flow of life, there is an anchor deeper to him that does not allow him to be drifted away like all the others around him.. (spoilers for Perfect Days)Perfect days(2023) by Wim Wenders is a strange film for its … Continue reading Perfect Days and Death Stranding: they are more than about cleaning toilets and delivering packages
Film essay on “There will be Blood”
“I am Finished“ With these words, ended one of the most influential and well developed cinematic stories of films and I even daresay literature history. Very loosely based on Upton Sinclair’s prestigious novel “Oil”, There will be Blood explores the life of Daniel Plainview, an ordinary silver miner turned oil tycoon and his journey along … Continue reading Film essay on “There will be Blood”