In the morning sunshine of the Spanish Steps in Rome, the young girl holding an ice cream has long been frozen into a totem of […]
The Awakening of Love Under the Hardening of War
In the burning night of Atlanta, Scarlett drags her frail body through the battle, and the red earth groans in agony under her feet. Gone […]
The Godfather: The Poetry of Capitalism in a Bloody Mass
The moment Sicilian blood oranges burst at Connie’s wedding, the underground empire of the Corleone family reveals its dual facets of sanctity and violence. Francis […]
Forrest Gump: the postmodern feather that deconstructs history
The feather that falls from the bench at the Savannah station completes the gentlest subversion of twentieth-century American history. When Forrest Gump picks up the […]
Hollywood: the temporal folds of the dream industry
In the shadows cast by the giant letters “HOLLYWOOD” on a barren hill outside Los Angeles, Thomas Harper Ince built the first standardized studio in […]
Pirates of the Caribbean: A Rhapsody on the Sea of Deconstruction and Reconstruction
When Hans Quartermain’s orchestral music exploded among the waves of the Caribbean Sea, and Captain Jack Sparrow stepped on the wreckage of the mast and […]
Rewriting the world in the name of humanity
Under the dome of Florence’s Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Brunelleschi’s invention of perspective transformed human visual experience into a mathematical formula. The dome […]
Clock hand in quicksand
The old typewriter in my father’s study always woke up during the rainy season. The brass knobs developed a mossy green rust, and when the […]
Aria in Time Film
My mother always said that the family’s old film camera was a talking box. Whenever the gears bit into the film and started to rotate, […]
An Eternal Narrative in the Folds of Time
The wind of the summer night stirred the yellowed pages of the old desk calendar, and the numbers gently trembled in a certain month of […]