Undead in Camus & Coen’s works
The search for life’s meaning has perplexed many for centuries. It is hard to find a definitive answer because it’s a question that forces you to examine the bigger picture and venture beyond traditional norms on how life ought to be lived. To some, the meaning of life is to achieve goals you set in life, and to others, the meaning of life is simply to live your life to the fullest. In Albert Camus’ The Stranger and Joel and…...
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Reporting On “Perfect Stranger”
I chose to watch Perfect Stranger as my first screening report. It is directed by Paolo Genovese. This film's main point is about the human nature. It revolves seven people who are good friends with each other. They got together for dinner because of the eclipse. As the hostess came up with a game that everyone put their mobile phones on the table, each call or message will be published. In fact, everyone has their own secrets, even if they…...
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“I Am Not Strange, I Am Just Not Normal.”
Salvador Dali surely made his presence in this world by not being normal. Salvador Dali was a Spanish painter in the 1930’s known for his surrealist style work and his eccentric personality. “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” This is a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson's…...
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