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Books and movies, untangled for sharper insights and unexpected connections. Perfect for a deep dive or a conversation that actually goes somewhere.


The Teacher’s Lounge and the Architecture of Unnecessary Harm
There’s a specific kind of disaster that starts with… absolutely nothing. No betrayal. No villain. No “big moment.” Just two adults, a missing twenty euros, and a room that smells like old coffee and institutional despair. The Teacher’s Lounge is a perfect case study in human overreaction: we don’t need a real problem — just a corridor, a rumor, and one anxious person with access to email. I watched it thinking: “This is Goldman Sachs, but with crayons instead of laptops.” “
Dec 8, 20255 min read


Cuarón’s Disclaimer and the Death of Moral Clarity
The Beautiful and the Disgusting Not a single sympathetic person. Everyone’s disgusting. Even Cate Blanchett — luminous, untouchable Cate Blanchet t — looks repulsive here. The camera hates her. And it’s mutual. You can almost feel her glaring back, as if saying: don’t you dare find meaning in this mess. This show is pure desperation — the kind that leaks through every human connection when people stop pretending they love. Pitiless. Senseless. Random. Like somebody tried to
Oct 17, 20258 min read


Are You Still Relevant?
The Sunset of Your Career Have you noticed how many people are suddenly out of work? They blame offshoring. They blame too many H-1B...
Sep 29, 20257 min read


You Are Not Your Fucking Khakis: 25 Years of Fight Club
25 years ago, a man with insomnia started a revolution. And the generation who watched him beat himself up — called it a cure. This...
Jul 18, 20259 min read


How to Waste 20 Years in "One Day"
The 2024 Netflix romantic drama based on the David Nicholls novel, spans 14 episodes and nearly two decades — and still manages to say...
Jul 11, 20255 min read


Memory, Cinema and the Ghosts We Carry:
review of Cerrar los ojos — Close Your Eyes. Spain, 2024. Directed by Víctor Erice. Have you ever heard about Spain’s famous...
Jul 5, 20254 min read


The Tinder Swindler or the Secret Thrill of Being Duped
Review of Tinder Swindler crime documentary on Netflix By the time he asked for $30,000 to escape his enemies, she’d already seen the...
Jun 13, 20254 min read


“Hit Man” (2023) Review – Nerd, Lies, and Videotape
# Hit Man: A Genre-Hopping Adventure An article about a philosophy professor, two cats, a bunch of wigs, and a fake German accent walks...
May 13, 20254 min read


The Idea of You: A Deep Dive Into the Glamorous Fantasy of Love
Directed by Michael Showalter | Starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine A Unique Plot With Unexpected Lessons Plot? Barely....
Apr 20, 20254 min read


High Drama on Mount Olympus: KAOS and the Curse of Eternal Free Time
Netflix’s KAOS opens with Jeff Goldblum staring at a suspiciously zit-like mark on his divine ass. That’s your first clue: this is not...
Mar 26, 20252 min read


Close-Knit and the Quiet Radicalism of Care
On the surface, Close-Kn it (Original title: Karera ga honki de amu toki wa, 2017 ) looks like a cozy Japanese film about cherry...
Mar 25, 20252 min read


God Bless America (2011) – A Parody of Rebellion dir. Bobcat Goldthwait
God Bless America plays like a parody of Natural Born Killers —except there’s no love, no sex, just two strangers united by sheer...
Mar 20, 20253 min read


Vanity Fair tv mini series (1998): Flirting, Scheming, and the Fine Art of Getting Exactly What You Want
You know that one coworker—the one who never stays late, never volunteers for extra work, and somehow still gets promoted before you? The...
Mar 17, 20253 min read


Stardust (2007): How to Stop Being a Dull, Predictable Loser and Find Some Magic
It's absolutely outrageous that most of us aren’t living in fairy tales. We’re not dashing across magical kingdoms, rescuing celestial...
Mar 15, 20253 min read


Mirror Mirror and No Wall
Mirror (Зеркало), 1974 dir. Tarkovsky “Do you understand what I’m saying?” —a voice whispers through the veil of time, breaking the...
Mar 14, 20253 min read


The Fever Dream About Grave Robbing, Lost Love, and Why You Should Really Learn to Let Go
La Chimera (2023) dir. Alice Rohrwacher Alice Rohrwacher ’s latest film is about an archaeologist who spends his days digging up Etruscan...
Feb 25, 20254 min read


The Fall, the Trial, and the Stories We Choose to Believe
ANATOMIE D’UNE CHUTE (2023) dir. Justine Triet A courtroom drama, a psychological thriller, a family tragedy—all at once, yet none of...
Feb 5, 20253 min read


Mirror Lives and Hidden Truths: Reflecting on Tafrigh
It’s said that every one of us has at least five people in the world who look exactly like us. Once, I saw a woman on the highway driving...
Jan 15, 20252 min read


For a Hookah Date Where History Smokes Itself
Fairytale, 2022 Dir. Aleksandr Sokurov So, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Churchill walk into a purgatory. They’re stuck in limbo,...
Dec 14, 20242 min read


A Psychedelic Bathwater Fever Dream for Your Messiest Date
Saltburn, 2023 dir. Emerald Fennell This movie takes your hand, waltzes you through opulent halls dripping in marble and silk and then...
Dec 2, 20243 min read
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