Lars von Trier’s Antichrist: Grief, Pain, Despair

Lars von Trier is, beyond a doubt, one of the boldest directors of our time; he never balks at digging a hole in the soil of human emotion with the sole intention of getting well and dirty. Von Trier’s Melancholia (2011) is a meditation on self-destruction, on one’s inner life being untameable, overbearing and suffocating. Antichrist (2009) is …

Charlie Kaufman and the Art of Adaptation

Adapting a novel into a film is a sensitive and hazardous process, especially if the novel has already garnered a following of avid readers. When adapting an already existing work the screenwriter may have the leisure of not having to come up with everything from scratch, but they must endure the added stress of wanting …

JOKER and the Pursuit of Happiness

This article contains spoilers throughout. Arthur Fleck has been told his whole life to put on a happy face: by his mother, by society, by himself. He has grown up in the belief that he was put on this Earth to spread joy and laughter, but with the very first scene of Joker, it’s made …