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A Woman Under the Influence (1974) - John Cassavetes
A Woman Under the Influence is more aggressively real than it is imagined. It’s a story of a woman, Mabel, benumbed by mental illness and...
Ayesha Dhurue
Oct 4, 20212 min read


The Stranger by Albert Camus
In Albert Camus’s The Stranger, you are put in front of the immediate ambiguity of the world. The kind that you experience in ordinary...
Ayesha Dhurue
Oct 4, 20214 min read


Uzak / Distant (2002) - Nuri Bilge Ceylan
This is a film about the loneliness of possessing a self. About existing in the midst of the length and breadth of life that nature...
Ayesha Dhurue
Sep 26, 20212 min read


The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
Themes of solitary existence, retrospective reflections, and confronting intense suppressed feelings dominate the story so far......
Ayesha Dhurue
Sep 16, 20211 min read


Harold Bloom on the importance of reading children's literature
Harold Bloom recommends 41 stories and tales and 83 poems for children in his book, Stories And Poems For Extremely Intelligent Children...
Ayesha Dhurue
Aug 25, 20213 min read


The symbolic significance of John Milton's Paradise Lost
Whether it is Satan awakening in Hell among the Rebel angels or the sentimental rigor with which Satan provokes the temptation and fall...
Ayesha Dhurue
Aug 10, 20212 min read


The profoundly psychological world of Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf
A psychological study of an individual rather than a large group of people, so that it’s more private and intimate. That is what makes...
Ayesha Dhurue
Jul 9, 20212 min read


Exploring Existentialism Before Albert Camus & Jean-Paul Sartre, No Longer Human, Dr. Strangelove, and Aoi Bungaku
#2: Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human (Video Review) #3: Exploring Existentialism in Alberto Moravia's Contempt, Before Albert Camus &...
Ayesha Dhurue
May 31, 20213 min read
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