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Targets
“The terms amok, a Malayan word, and berserk, a Norse word, have been used to describe individuals going on killing sprees,” says Grant Duwe, author of Mass Murder in the United States: A History. “Both terms have been around for centuries, which reflects the fact that mass murder is neither a modern nor a uniquely…
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Prelude to a Kiss
It’s been a decade since I graduated from film school, so maybe I’m forgetting, but I don’t remember studying the opening shot of Prelude to a Kiss. Yet it calls to be studied, much like the common basilisk lizard. You know, the one that walks on water. The camera begins by gazing at an upside-down…
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A New Leaf
“[God] cannot tempt to virtue as we do to vice,” Screwtape declares in his titular letters, holy-ghost-written by C.S. Lewis. However Screwtape is one of the leads in a legion of demons, assigned to mentor a young devil in the methods of tempting men, so perhaps he is not trustworthy. Or correct. As a case…
