Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, the wind is passing through.- Christina Rossetti, 1830 – 1894 Yesterday, my friend Erica and I watched Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises (2013). For the last five years, it has remained one of my favorites and each time I seeContinue reading “Thoughts on Human Experience: Revisiting Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Wind Rises””
Category Archives: My Thoughts and Theories
The Idea of Game of Thrones: The value we give to truth
Visual media has a way of permeating and changing us subliminally, like any of the arts and letters, but on a more extreme level. Visual narratives naturally pair with music and philosophy and help audiences bond with characters that inspire dreams and ideas. What entertains us changes us and, if we allow it, it shiftsContinue reading “The Idea of Game of Thrones: The value we give to truth”
Reflection on the World Today: What entertains us DEFINES us.
(The Thinker, by Auguste Rodin) These are just my personal thoughts. Many things have been nagging me for a long while now. There is no denying that often I feel alienated from those around me. Why do I feel this way? It is not that I do not talk to people or have good relationships.Continue reading “Reflection on the World Today: What entertains us DEFINES us. “
Senior Thesis Part 6: End of the Expressionist movement and the Nazi takeover
Because of the Dawes and Young Plan, which relieved war reparations, Germany after 1924 went through a small golden age. Consequently, the Expressionist Movement began to decline, eclipsed by the rising American film genre. Impressed by German techniques and films, American producers hired as many Expressionist filmmakers, designers, makeup artists and technicians they could getContinue reading “Senior Thesis Part 6: End of the Expressionist movement and the Nazi takeover”
Senior Thesis Part 5: Metropolis (1927)
Discharged from his position as an infantryman during World War I in 1916, Lang worked as a scenarist for Otto Rippert, whose generated crowd and horrific laboratory inspired many of his films. Decla Bioscop hired him as a director in 1918, where he completed his earliest films Die Spinnen (1919) and Dr. Mabuse the GamblerContinue reading “Senior Thesis Part 5: Metropolis (1927)”
From the Perspective of an Old Soul 