Essays
Young Adult Male Contemplates Love -- A Summer's Tale
Vampirism as Metaphor -- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Why Charity Can Be Bad -- The Overnighters
Lying to Make a Martyr -- Fruitvale Station
How to Understand Movies (and Avatar Defense)
Sublimation -- Laurence, Anyways
France -- Blue is the Warmest Color
Mountain as Metaphor -- Force Majeure
MLK vs Malcolm X, Slavery, Race -- Selma
Stress and the Unconscious -- The Dark Knight
Moral Relativism and Meditation
Multiple Frames and Coach Paterno -- Nightcrawler, The Hunt, Happy Valley
Wes Anderson and Too Much of a Good Thing
Tree of Life, Blue Valentine, and The Place Beyond the Pines
Referential Mania -- The Place Beyond the Pines
Female Empowerment -- Death Proof
Christopher Nolan is Overrated and Work/Life Balance -- The Prestige
The Split Psyche Post WW2 -- The Master
Love Difficulties Scale like Video Games
Political Matters are not Simple
Wolf of Wall Street vs Lone Survivor
Jurassic World was Terrible; Metaphor in Shawshank Redemption
Freud, Naivete, and AI -- Ex Machina
My Friend Died; Impressionism -- Upstream Color
Sword as Metaphor -- Kill Bill
"The Bar's in the Globe" Microcosm; Landa's Evil; Propaganda -- Inglourious Basterds