Escaping Doppelgangers: "Coraline" Serves Up Adventure in a Parallel World
This delightfully odd horror movie presents a whimsically strange alternate reality to younger audiences.

A young man wakes up in the city street with a bruise on his head and a desire to get away.
This delightfully odd horror movie presents a whimsically strange alternate reality to younger audiences.
I understood post-memory as passing down stories and images of one’s experiences that are not your own. For decades, rape has been depicted in cinema through a third-person perspective, leaving the viewer to observe rape; not to experience it.
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.
James Cameron’s The Terminator (1984) marks the beginning of a wonderful two-part arc, brimming with style and substance. The film follows Sarah Connor, a waitress living in Los Angeles. One night, a cybernetic organism (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is sent back in time to kill Sarah. A human resistance fighter (Michael Biehn) is also sent back in time, with the intent of saving Sarah from this deadly foe.
This powerful story shines with poetic animation, an exploration of deeper truths, and the protagonist's complex search for identity.