Tag: Sexuality

• 5 Films Inspired By the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales (Red Riding Hood)

  

  For the second part of the list dealing with the films based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, with a focus on the fairy tale Red Riding Hood, I chose a Japanese animated film “Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade” and a surrealist Czechoslovakian film “Valerie and Her Week of Wonders”, films which deal with this fairy…

  Vigour of Film Lines

  October 23, 2019

  Film Lists

  Anime, Childhood, Erotic, Fairy Tale, Innocence, Japan, Psychology, Religion, Sexuality, Surrealism, Teenager, Trauma, Violence

• Vision of God as a Spider: Bergman’s “Through a Glass Darkly”

  

  In the thirteenth chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians, St Paul says: “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I also am known”. In these St Paul’s words, practically the whole film Through the Glass…

  Vigour of Film Lines

  May 2, 2019

  European cinema, Ingmar Bergman, Swedish cinema

  Art, Christianity, Cinema, European, Freud, God, Love, Mental illness, Psychology, Religion, Sexuality, Theology

• Path to Completion in “Never Let Me Go” (2010)

  

    Title card: The breakthrough in medical science came in 1952. Doctors could now cure the previously incurable. By 1967, life expectancy passed 100 years. Never Let Me Go is based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro; the film describes the dystopian reality which takes place more than 50 years before the film was made.…

  Vigour of Film Lines

  September 19, 2018

  American cinema, British cinema, Commonwealth cinema

  Art, Ethics, Existentialism, Fascism, Humanity, Kazuo Ishiguro, Life, Love, Moral Theory, Morality, Mortality, Philosophy, Sexuality, Soul, Spirituality