Reviews

I remember vividly how Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver impacted me and my best friend from high school. We found the character of Travis Bickle shocking, and in a strange way even prophetic. A man who would rant about the rot and dirt that he exposes himself to in New York, working as a taxi driver. But he is also a man [...]

Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy stands as one of cinema's most profound explorations of power, family, and the American Dream. Spanning decades, the Corleone family saga reveals how the pursuit of success, respect, and upward mobility leads not to fulfillment but to moral corruption, isolation, and tragedy. The trilogy inverts the mythology of the American Dream, exposing it as an ideology that promises individual escape while perpetuating exploitation. [...]

Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers sparked immediate controversy in the year of its release, primarily because of its excessive violence and its morally ambiguous protagonists, the murderous couple Mickey and Mallory Knox. Perhaps it was the violence, perhaps the ambiguity of its characters, that caused the film, compared to Stone’s other works (Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK, and Nixon), to fade somewhat into obscurity. [...]

The philosopher Slavoj Žižek once made the provocative claim about love: “If you can explain why you love a person, then you don’t truly love them.” Love cannot be logically argued. Unlike science, logic, or mathematics, it is irrational and ultimately inexplicable [...]