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On this video, I explicated on the Other World and all its creepy glory, emphasizing on its eerie inhabitants. 

Is the Other Father the only character with free will, and a human-like conscience? Was he a victim, too? 

What’s the true form of Other World? Is it really this dazzling, fantastical, psychedelic world or is it pepper gray like a pencil sketch? 

Where does she get her powers? 

Is there another passage to the Other World other than the Door? 

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Sant'Agnese

Cesare Dandini (Florence, 1596 - Florence, 1657)

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Audrey Hepburn photographed by Bill Avery, 1953

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Coraline (2009) dir. Henry Selick

When Coraline and the Cat first met, Coraline thought that this creature had the voice similar to the one she heard at the back of her head; like her conscience, or whatever that was. She asks the Cat if it had a name, and it tells her that cats didn’t need names, for they knew who they were. It tells her that humans needed names because they weren’t sure of their own identities.

There are a lot of things we can experience in the book, better than we could in the film- though I do prefer the film. Having to experience both makes you realize the subtle connections that complement each other to reveal the secrets of this timeless work of art. 

Go ahead and check out the awesome video I put up on my new YouTube channel where I I analyze the details we missed in the whole decade we’ve been trying to decode this stop motion animation from Henry Selick, and the children’s novella of Neil Gaiman- Coraline. 

Halloween is here, time to put the spook on! 👻

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Jewish women in art

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Insomnia (2002)

Directed by Christopher Nolan

Cinematography by Wally Pfister

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He's one of those actors whose awesome air just captivates you, makes you wanna be him or something. Though RDJ takes the top spot in my list for Cool Guy, Al Pacino is coming in close second. He's just... Jaw-dropping and surprisingly incredibly endearing on screen.

AL PACINO The Panic in the Needle Park (1971)|dir. Jerry Schatzberg 

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) dir. Michel Gondry

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Le Miroir des Dames, a manual of moral conduct composed for Jeanne of Navarre (d. 1305), wife of Philip IV of France, adapted for Henry VII (British Library, Royal 19 B XVI).

The volume opens by a full-page display of Henry VII’s coat of arms hanging from a branch of a hawthorn tree, supported by a red dragon and a white greyhound. It has been speculated that Henry VII gifted this book to his wife, Elizabeth of York, around the time they were married in 1486. The text is a treatise on queenship extolling queens as the image of feminine perfection, blessed with a special grace, and covers the whole field of considerations necessary for a queen to be an example to other women, as well as the virtues she should cultivate in her public role in the government of the kingdom.

The opening miniature shows Jeanne of Navarre receiving the Speculum dominarum from Durand de Champagne, her Franciscan confessor.

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Depiction, by an unknown Vietnamese artist, of the French capture of the town of Hưng Hóa (in today’s Phú Thọ, Vietnam) on April 12, 1884.

The taking of the town was a major victory in France’s Tonkin Campaign (1883–86) to take northern Vietnam and turn it into a French protectorate. France also created a protectorate in Annam (central Vietnam) after a nationalist uprising there in 1885.

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Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

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Seal impressions from Ur (Iraq)

ca. 2900-2700 BCE

These clay fragments include the impressions of cylinder seals. They were once pressed around the pegs and locks of storehouses at archaic Ur. The top two sealings represent milking scenes, while the bottom depicts the presentation of offerings to a deity in the entrance of a temple.

Penn Museum 33-35-332, 33-35-341, 33-35-336

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Movies that have made me cry like a baby

For a movie buff who’s more inclined to the gruesome thrill of horror flicks and the ingenious narration of crime films, I’m pretty in love with emotional movies. It takes a lot for this ENTJ to shed a tear; even on purpose; and in fact, I can only name a few titles that really got these eyeballs of mine watery. 

I think a major part of the reason why I love emotional movies is that the way that I still get affected by them helps me determine if I still have a moral, empathetic anchor... You know... Somewhere deep down there. It gives me solace. 

Moving on, knowing that I’m not an easy shell to break, I can guarantee that the films I’m about to mention will absolutely tear your heart apart. 

S/N I haven’t watched Miracle in Cell No. 7 or any Frank Darabont masterpiece yet, so if they hit hard enough, I might make another list. 

S/N #2 Animated films will be separated. 

5. Marriage Story (2019) dir. Noah Baumbach 

I’m a 17-year-old single girl living with my perfectly stable parents who love each other so much and I’m happy and eternally grateful for that; but why the hell am I crying?! 

Starting off on our list is a movie that made me cry because of the immense confusion I felt as I watched two exhausted, beautiful humans go through a painful separation when they clearly still love one another. 

I think the main reason why this film made a waterfall out of me is because I didn’t know how to feel. I didn’t know if I should side on Nicole, since she was the one who made more sacrifices and considerations; or Charlie- since he was the one who was suffering in the ugly end of the stick. It made me feel frustrated and angry in a way that I wanted to push them back together, and at the same time, pull them both apart. 

I’d like to say more- but now I just want to credit Scarlett and Adam for the most heart-wrenching fight scene I have ever endured in all seventeen years of my life.

4. Train to Busan (2016) dir. Yeon Sang Ho 

I watched this Korean zombie horror flick thinking it was going to quench my thirst for some brutal flesh-ripping, blood and gushing gore. I NEVER got tired of zombies- whether in movies, video games or soap operas, I eat that crap up. And so I dived in ravenous as hell, thinking I was gonna get purely that. 

But instead I got a pretty, pregnant woman and her protective husband, an inadvertently neglectful dad and his adorable child, a hobo, and two teenagers my age who’re just as afraid as everyone else would be. 

Oh, and a scumbag whose selfish deeds are so unspeakable I’d rather say ‘Voldemort’. 

Seokwoo didn’t have to smile like that, you know. It’s little contrasting details like that that make emotional scenes so goddamn irresistible. 

This movie got me by surprise- my unsuspecting self who did not expect any tear-jerker was cut up from behind with a father, and an almost-father, sacrificing for the love of their lives. Who doesn’t cry to that kinda stuff? Please cut their chests open and install a heart. 

3. Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron 

Oh yes, the popular royal tear-jerker, sitting right next to the campus queen bees, The Notebook and A Walk to Remember (to which I didn’t cry, for what it’s worth). As much as I loved the romance that so beautifully blossomed between Jack and Rose, quite frankly I did not cry because the former died. Although that was really sad, too.

You know what gave me a stuffy nose and two red eyes for three days? The other passengers, for gosh’s sake. 

The guy who got shot by the seaman. That seaman who shot himself afterwards. The band who played through the chaos. The maids that drowned in the ballroom trying to look after everyone else. The lone kid in the hallway who could’ve drowned. The mother tucking her children to bed. And most of all, the old couple cuddling each other as water rushed in their room! 

I don’t think I’ve to explain why that subtly painful montage broke my gold-titanium alloy heart. It didn’t help that the lovable Captain Smith chose to sink with his ship, too. 

2. Forrest Gump (1995) dir. Robert Zemeckis 

Before I watched it, I didn’t know what to expect from this movie. But it had Tom Hanks (who, to me at that moment, was purely Sheriff Woody), and I knew it was iconic; so I sat through, thinking it was another one of those great films that was going to bore me. And boy, was I wrong! 

So, unlike all the other films on this list, Forrest Gump actually made me cry in a heart-warming, happy, beautiful way. We watched this guy persevere through the challenges of his universe, we saw the way he rewrote history, we laughed at his utter stupidity, we lamented the come-and-go relationship with Jenny, we grew to love Colonel Dan; everything about it was amazing and touching and the end was just so incredibly satisfying, I didn’t know films could make me happy that much. 

I was just really, really proud of our boy Forrest and how he lived, okay? Leave me alone. 

1. Scent of a Woman (1992) dir. Martin Brest

So, I’m a really big fan of Al Pacino. Why? Because, like I said- crime is my #1 genre. Specifically, organized crime. And who’s the prince of the organized crime genre? You guessed it- this man. He was Jimmy Hoffa. He was Tony Montana. He was Michael Corleone, for crying out loud! 

As a new, young fan, he has established in me the image of a tough, hard-wired man who would stop at absolutely nothing to achieve what he wants. Not morals, not friends, and definitely not family (F stands for Fredo). So what did I expect when he became the blind, eccentric, women-obsessed war veteran Lt. Col. Frank Slade? I had no idea.

That was why it got me so hard- because I was viewing Al play a largely different role. And what’s astonishing about it is that I didn’t see him as Al Pacino. Didn’t see him as a godfather, a union leader, or a drug lord. I saw him as that in-denial old man- washed up, empty, and feeling unwanted for the things he’d brought about in his life. For half the movie, I was admiring every nuance, the clever dialogue, the relationship-building, the philosophical aspects. The other half, I was crying profusely. 

To be specific, I cried four separate times through the two-hour feature; especially during the Ferrari scene. It’s weird I know, but I cried there the most. The film was a very remarkable experience; and all these is why it is my number one pick for a film that will definitely gouge your eyes out. 

I highly recommend all of these features for both lovers and non-lovers of the emotional aspects of film. Even I, as a crime and horror fan, could attest for the fact that these films are not a waste of your fast-paced time. You will be awed.

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The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

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You should stop dreaming soon.

PERFECT BLUE (1997) dir. Satoshi Kon

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OK, life’s a fact.