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Fairy tales tend to lead to a certain universal truth about the human condition. They masquerade as a fantastic tale when, in reality, they speak more to our truths than non-fiction writing. The story of Cinderella is about how we want the illusion of perfection rather than a real human being. When the prince sees that the step-sister has cut off ( Read more... )

My niece has been staying with me for a while now and this means that I have seen far too many movies to actually sit down and talk about them. She's really into films, she was actually quite upset when she told her class that her favorite actor was Clifton Collins Jr. and they had no idea who she was talking about. So in the past week, I've seen ( Read more... )

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Upon first waltzing into the theater with expectations of an adorable film to soothe my unexplainable crush on Zooey Deschanel, I realized that I had just seen a film that was not a love story. And yet, everyone I came across insisted that (500) Days of Summer was, in fact, a love story. These few people told me that the reason why the movie sucked ( Read more... )

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The epilogue to Persona 3 was a hard game. I shook my fist at many a boss, hoping to return with an impervious army of new personae. However, I was never driven to finish this game because of the plot. This was one of the few games where I slogged through simply because I was stubborn and I wanted to persevere. A few times, I gave up playing it for ( Read more... )