Giordano Bruno’s heliocentric challenge to geocentric authority is reimagined in the anime Orb as a philosophical battle between rigid modernist forces and fluid postmodern resistance.
Mind Your Language uses exaggerated cultural, racial, and gender stereotypes to create humor, but in doing so, it reflects deeper societal biases and assumptions.
In The Secret History, Richard, Camilla, and Bunny fabricate identities in an attempt to fit in, only to be overcome by tragedy, loneliness, and illusion.
In FLCL, adolescence is portrayed not as a linear journey toward maturity but as a chaotic collision of identity, desire, and absurdity.
After that horrible night, laughter not only serves as a continual reminder to Clamence that his existence is ridiculous, but it also becomes the phantom of hypocrisy that he is unable to shake.
Echoing Ovidian metamorphosis as a means of self-erasure and emancipation, Yeong-hye’s metamorphosis in The Vegetarian represents a radical rejection of social standards.
In a world where the sun burns mercilessly and monsters lurk in disguise, trust becomes the most dangerous gamble in No, I’m not a Human.
Jimmy did not just turn into a monster—the system, built on brutality, instability, and desperation, made him one.