Essays

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P.H. Balance -- Fight Club

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Alcohol and Delusional Love -- Like Crazy

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Watching Actors Act like They're Acting -- Birdman

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Redheads are Personified Heat -- Atonement

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Drugs in America -- No Country for Old Men

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Inner-Child Metaphor -- There Will Be Blood

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Women Taking Over -- Thou Wast Lovely and Mild

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Horror Films

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The Hypnosis of Paced Films

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Delusion and Reality -- Love

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Higher and Lower Selves -- Duke of Burgundy

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Self-Control and Racism -- French Blood

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Introverts and Extroverts in Relationships -- Drinking Buddies

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To Build a Fire and Kill a Pig -- Nana

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Intimacy as Violence -- They Look Like People

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The Arrival's Shortcomings

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Being One's Self/ One Self -- House of Cards

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Wolf of Wall Street vs Lone Survivor

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Jurassic World was Terrible; Metaphor in Shawshank Redemption

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Freud, Naivete, and AI -- Ex Machina

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 My Friend Died; Impressionism -- Upstream Color

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Meaning in Tree of Life

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Roger Ebert is overrated

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Sword as Metaphor -- Kill Bill

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"The Bar's in the Globe" Microcosm; Landa's Evil; Propaganda -- Inglourious Basterds

America's Shift from Industry to Entertainment -- Rushmore

Unconscious Barriers -- Black Swan

Oscars are Stupid -- Dallas Buyers Club and 12 Years a Slave

My Favorite Coppola Film -- Somewhere

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Young Adult Male Contemplates Love -- A Summer's Tale

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Vampirism as Metaphor -- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

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Why Charity Can Be Bad -- The Overnighters

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Lying to Make a Martyr -- Fruitvale Station

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Beautiful Women Have It Rough

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How to Understand Movies (and Avatar Defense)

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Sublimation -- Laurence, Anyways

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France -- Blue is the Warmest Color

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Mountain as Metaphor -- Force Majeure

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MLK vs Malcolm X, Slavery, Race -- Selma

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Stress and the Unconscious -- The Dark Knight

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Moral Relativism and Meditation

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Multiple Frames and Coach Paterno -- Nightcrawler, The Hunt, Happy Valley

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Wes Anderson and Too Much of a Good Thing

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Tree of Life, Blue Valentine, and The Place Beyond the Pines

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Referential Mania -- The Place Beyond the Pines

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Female Empowerment -- Death Proof

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English Majoring

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Christopher Nolan is Overrated and Work/Life Balance -- The Prestige

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The Split Psyche Post WW2 -- The Master

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A Reversion to Introversion

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Love Difficulties Scale like Video Games

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Political Matters are not Simple

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Her is Overrated

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