One day, Sayoko is raped by a masked man after school, but afterwards, she asks her student Takao, who enters the classroom, to keep it a secret. A few days later, Sayoko finds an envelope containing a threatening letter. Sayoko confides in Takao and goes with him to the meeting place, but no one shows up. Terrified, Sayoko calls her husband, Koichi, but it's his mistress, Yuki, who answers the phone. Takao gently comforts the wounded Sayoko, and they finally sleep together...
I think these messages and the way they are presented in this small-town in Texas are increasingly more important as the internet/ social media becomes more and more critical and judgemental every day. Love yourself today and every day because as Ru Paul always says: “If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love someone else?”
Despite being an over-talked-about piece of media, 'Euphoria' has some interesting articles about it with personal angles that oppose the average tendency to be generic.
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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.
Making Apes begins by looking back at the history of makeup effects in Hollywood, which was revolutionized by Jack Pierce, the person behind Frankenstein (1931) and The Wolf Man (1941)
