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Can a doctor afford to be an ordinary person at work? «The Pitt» and the Michel Foucault’s panopticon
Michael Robinavitch becomes the perfect guardian figure, who begins to suffer from his privileged position of one who looks after everyone
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The Ontology of Homophobia and Discrimination in Lex Ortega’s Atroz
Atroz is a film that cannot be unseen. It is also a film that, for many, should not be seen. But as a philosophical text, it offers a unique and harrowing ontology of homophobia.
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Sorgoi Prakov: Ontological Horror, the Critique of Europe, and the Taxonomy of Snuff
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The film ends, as it must, in darkness. Sorgoi has completed his descent, has become the monster that Europe’s indifference made him.
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The Transgression of Dictatorship in Lucio Rojas’s Trauma
Trauma does not offer a theory of dictatorship’s transgression. It performs one
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The Ontology of the Unreal: Faux-Snuff as a Window onto the Real
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This image is not a philosophical argument but an aesthetic experience, a felt encounter with the inhuman
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The Aesthetics of Redemption: How Nazi Cinematic Soteriology Shapes the Modern Political Image
The danger is that we have become desensitized to the aesthetics of fascism.
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The Ontology of Horror in Adam Rehmeier’s The Bunny Game and Its Role as Extreme Therapy for Lead Actress Rodleen Getsic
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The film endures as avant-garde testament: horror not as escape, but as ontological truth and redemptive rite.
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*I am Eja*
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The essay about the survival and future of Crimean indigenous communities inspired by the film Soñ Arif” (“The Last Arif”) CEMAAT; directed by Ernes Sarıhalil with Sevilia Halil and Deli Demir
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Queer Necrophilia: Transgression and Desire in Jörg Buttgereit's Nekromantik Dilogy
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Traditional horror punishes transgression; here, necrophiles are protagonists, their desires centralized rather than vilified.
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Only you, but only for you: Only you review
“Only You” is a valentine to serendipity, positing love not as a checklist but a cosmic crapshoot.
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Bloodthirsty couple: Lonely Hearts review
“Lonely Hearts” stands as a testament to cinema’s power to resurrect the damned.
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Very bad hair: Bad hair review
“Bad Hair” is the cinematic equivalent of a botched box braids install—painful in patches, pretty in others, but undeniably you.
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Hollywood abyss: The Black Dahlia review
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The Black Dahlia isn’t a film you respect; it’s one you surrender to, like a bad acid trip that ends in epiphany.
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The Production of Emptiness
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On Harun Farocki, Ho Tzu Nyen, and the Migratory Image
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Ontology of Horror in the Human Centipede Trilogy: Being in the Chain of Dehumanization
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In Six’s trilogy, horror serves as a tool for deconstructing the humanistic subject: the human, ostensibly the crown of creation, is transformed into a chain.
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The Dreamers: A Fever Dream of Revolution, Cinema, and Flesh
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“The Dreamers” is a cornucopia: sexuality as insurrection, cinema as insurrection’s mirror.