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  • Love Without a Safe Place, but With Emotional Realism John Cassavetes’ A Woman Under the Influence feels much less like a polished Hollywood drama and much more like an emotional crisis unfolding before our eyes in real time. What was slightly polarizing upon watching was how uncomfortable the film is willing to be. It lingers…

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  • There’s a new piece up on the site: “Journey Through the Limbic System.” Which, yes, does sound a little like the title of a cursed science fair project or an elective you accidentally take at 8:00 a.m. and never emotionally recover from. But I promise it’s more interesting than that. This new page lives in the…

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  • How much more can we take of this? Why do we dare to hope for the best yet expect the worst without fail? Perhaps the reason is that every new day that encroaches brings another devastating breakdown that unravels the human mind into thinking that, somehow, if by some miracle, this war will end one…

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