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O Captain, My Captain: Confessions of a Math Kid Who Enjoyed at Dead Poets Society
Why did a movie about a poetry teacher wreck me?
SSon·Apr 17, 2026·7 min read
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La La Land Is Not a Love Story. It Is a Film About Two People Who Chose Themselves.
La La Land is one of the most visually beautiful films of the last decade. It is also, on honest inspection, a film about two people who are so consumed by their own ambitions that their relationship was always going to be a casualty of those ambitions. The tragedy is not that they could not be together. It is that neither of them genuinely tried.
SSon·Jul 30, 2025·12 min read
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Titanic: Why James Cameron's Masterpiece Still Breaks Me Every Time
I was a kid obsessed with ships. Not just Titanic. All of them. Britannic, Lusitania, Olympic. I built entire worlds in my head from grainy photographs and library books. Then James Cameron made a film that put all of it on screen, and added a love story so devastating that the ocean itself felt like it was grieving. I have never fully recovered.
SSon·Jul 9, 2025·17 min read
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Hot Take: Parasite Won Best Picture Because Western Audiences Were Dazzled by Subtitles
Parasite is a very good film. It is also the beneficiary of one of the most inflated critical reputations in recent Oscar history, propped up partly by the specific way Western audiences respond to foreign language cinema. Let us have the honest conversation nobody wants to have.
SSon·Jun 30, 2025·8 min read
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Money Heist and the Case for Berlin: The Most Compelling Character in Modern Television
Money Heist is a heist thriller that became a global phenomenon. But its greatest achievement is not the heist, the masks, or the anthem. It is a dying man in a tailored suit who is simultaneously the most monstrous and most magnetic character on television. Berlin deserved better than the show gave him. He also deserved exactly what he got.
SSon·Mar 1, 2025·11 min read