"Do Revenge" Bends Genres, Champions Authenticity, and Promotes Inclusivity
'Do Revenge' offers a 2022-relevant sociopolitical commentary that decries virtue signaling while promoting the inclusive virtues the nefarious power structures exploit.

A daring horror-anthology film built from seven segments, each by a different director, unified under the theme of taboo, the body and the repressed. The collection turns its gaze toward the most demonised and fetishised frontier of bodily representation — the anus — and uses this “hidden” territory to explore anxiety, identity, desire, repression and liberation. The stories vary in tone and style—some digital-age allegory, some dream-like psychological journeys, some extreme body-horror—but all form a choral fresco: each segment maintains its individual voice while entering into a dialogue with the others. The project positions itself not simply as provocation but as a political, aesthetic dissection of the obscene, asking where cinema’s boundaries lie, and what is suppressed, shown or revealed.
'Do Revenge' offers a 2022-relevant sociopolitical commentary that decries virtue signaling while promoting the inclusive virtues the nefarious power structures exploit.
Netflix’s Shadow and Bone has a complicated relationship with race. It has a diverse cast, but not without its problems. Based on Leigh Bardugo’s two book series, the show features characters from the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which is very straight and white, and the Six of Crows duology, which is much more diverse. When bringing together a cast and writing about these characters, the team behind the show expanded upon some of the representation missing from the first trilogy, then seemed to take away representation from the duology. Shadow and Bone seems to play a bit of a push and pull game when it comes to portraying diversity onscreen.
The gentle, emotional nuances of Evan’s coming-of-age story would have been so beneficial to have incorporated into the life of a POC character. Showing a Black, Asian or Latino young man that is afforded the space to be vulnerable, flawed and sensitive while driving a compelling and widely-loved narrative would have been a game changer.
Growing up without a dad, I got a lot of my fatherly advice from the prototypes I saw on the silver screen. It’s these characters and films that gave me a glimpse into a dynamic I had never known but also made me realize that I was missing out. Here are my top 10 paternal films.
Star Wars is better if you believe that Luke Skywalker is gay. You can't change my mind.