-
Genius
There is a tendency, in this human nature of ours, to distill a thing into what we consider its most fundamental. Sex becomes pleasure, knowledge becomes a recitation of facts, culture becomes equitable with skin color. These derivations all seem essential in some ways, but, through this distillation, we lose the whole and are left…
-
Black Sea
“I’m claustrophobic,” declares a character early on in Black Sea. We grin because we know that phobia will be tested to the limits for both the character and us. Claustrophobia is the main draw of submarine movies. Few things send shivers down the spine faster than the thought of floating through blackness in a tin…
