Robert Egger’s debut film, The Witch, is made like a true veteran of horror. Set in Puritan New England, the film tells a story of a teenage girl named Thomasin and her family as they are tormented by a supernatural presence in the woods. Eggers builds tension with his use of negative space and a […]
Archives for February 2018
Disney-fying Colonialism
February 14, 2018 by ·
In the 1990s, films about or containing indigenous people were relatively coaxed as stories that were sympathetic to the Native Americans. However, Hollywood understood that the white man could not be the bad guy, so they created the ‘good’ white man, one in touch with nature and the native Americans, and the bad white man […]
Parallelism in The Other Conquest
February 7, 2018 by ·
La Otra Conquista (The Other Conquest), directed by Salvador Carrasco, tells the story of the oppression of the Aztecs by the Spanish Conquistadors. Interestingly, the film is not from just one perspective, particularly the conquerors, which happens to be the case in most historical dramas but rather a film in which the oppressed are seen. […]