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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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What Life Is Strange taught me about rhetorical responsibility If you’ve already read my full review of Life Is Strange, you know I think it’s less about time travel and more about sacrifice. If you haven’t, you can read it here → Life is Strange is Not About Time Travel – Static Pages, Moving Meaning But there’s something I…
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It’s About Rhetorical Choice, Ultimate Sacrifice, and Who We Decide to Be Life is Strange (2015) Life Is Strange (Dontnod Entertainment, 2015) is most often described as the narrative-saturated game about time travel, hipster photography, and nostalgic teenage angst, all of which might not sound too appetizing at first glance. I’d say that description is accurate,…