Lie and let die: what Lulu Wang's "The Farewell" teaches us about lies, family, and love.

Lulu Wang’s 2019 “The Farewell” tells a compelling story about the power we have over others and the implications of how we choose to use it. It brings into focus uncomfortable questions about tradition, morality and ultimately about how far we would go for the ones we love.

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Strømmegigantens redningsfond - Netflix, $100 millioner, og en hjelpende hånd

Hele verden føler nå på den usikre tiden vi lever i, og det kan virke lenge til før koronaviruset covid-19 vil slippe sitt hold på verdenssamfunnet. Kulturindustrien og filmbransjen verden over har fått et realt slag under beltet - men Netflix sitt nye $100 millioners redningsfond er her for å gjevne uten denne kampen for filmbransjens produksjonsarbeider.

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The 92nd Academy Awards: four victories and a lot of defeats

The 92nd edition of the Academy Awards took us by surprise. Parasite, Bong Joon-Ho’s masterpiece about social struggle and inequality, received all the acclaim it deserved and swept four major awards. But does this mean that the Academy is going to pay more attention to good and original stories from now on?

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Screen, burn, kill: the forgotten story of nitrate film stock

At the end of his 2009 movie, Inglorious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino kills the entire Nazi high command in a mesmerizing example of revisionist cinema. The extreme gory vengeance which Tarantino exercises on screen, presumably in the name of the victims whose lives have been claimed by the Holocaust, is still the subject of many heated debates. 

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“Coming of age and never returning”: Filosofiske spekulasjoner om nostalgiens vesen

I typiske coming-of-age-fortellinger tas vi tilbake til en annen tid – men hvordan er det egentlig nostalgien påvirker oss? I dette eksperimentelle essayet kombinerer Sindre Brennhagen innsikter fra konstitutiv retorikk og filosofiens verden, og hevder at nostalgi kan tolkes som en «ulmende påminnelse om døden, et tilbakevendende gufs av midlertidighet».

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Naked Lunch: The Monstrous Adaptation made by Monsters, for Monsters

Not only does darkness shroud the world we live in, but copies its form too. Darkness is a great imitator. As we well know, if we stare at it, it will stare back. If we scream at darkness, darkness will also scream back. But if we are afraid, darkness will eat us. Because monsters inhabit this darkness.

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