Category: Verbal-Visual

In a cross between the social commentary of Pleasantville and any number of zombie thrillers such as Dawn of the

Apocalypto (a derivation of apocalypse; the title meaning both revelation or disclosure and impending judgment) reminds viewers at the outset

Does knowledge of one’s future affect one’s choices and one’s destiny?

Music overcomes oppression. People can change for the better even within the crucible of dictatorship.  Set in the bare, gray

Everything in the universe is wholly interconnected, and herein lays humanity’s hope.

It is the moan, the wail, the cry of humanity awaiting their hope.  Black Snake Moan is set in The

Seraphim Falls explains that hatred is the fuel of revenge. 

Pan’s Labyrinth tells us we live within two worlds: one informs and changes the other. 

The overstated, mythic creation of those who would want it so—men do not fight for

Joyeux Noel (“Merry Christmas”) finds a moment of grace in a landscape of evil.