_film as philosophy

Media interpretation and how film itself is a vehicle of self-referential observation on society and on the self.

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• Sacrifice, substitution, and the remainder of grief: The Lottery, Best Wishes to All, Widow's Bay, Azrael, Midsommar, Hereditary, Rental Family and Pluribus, read as one argument about sacrifice and grief.

Then

• on Companion (2025): Ex Machina and her "smashed together", and the love-robot-turned-murderer trope handled with taste.
• Christmas Eve Movie: Juror #2, and how the practical idea of justice always collides with human nature.
• 2025-01-17: the day David Lynch died. His surrealism and dream logic, and art that offers no explanations.
• 2025-04-08: cinematic violence, from Adolescence to Soft & Quiet (2022).
• 2025-01-22: when a work of art "phenomenologically speaks to you."
• On Experiencing Art: film, music and literature can only be experienced as time unfolds.