Category: Film Critique
The Dissonance of “Love Hurts” (2025)
The experience as a whole was devastatingly disappointing. It was as if someone wanted to make action-comedy Sharknado quality but was told to make John Wick in real estate instead. And that is a problem that could have long-reaching problems for progressive representation.
A Sadistic Gaze: Sexual Assault in Into the Forest
The trope of the “strong female character” has become almost as tiring as the picture-perfect Mary Sue. For a time it seemed that in lieu of, say, strong writing and dynamic personhood female characters were defined by the level by which they achieved masculine strength. For a time, this type of writing was loosely considered “feminist” in mainstream thought. However, feminism reaches more deeply than just switching a woman’s personality from the traditionally genteel to the gruffness of the traditionally masculine.