To realize her dream of studying, Kartini went to Jakarta with minimal funds. Kartini was helped by Ivan, a boyfriend she met through social media, to find a place to live in Jakarta.Kartini then found an advertisement for a boarding house specifically for women who could pay as willingly as possible. Kartini was interested and visited the place, but she found several strange conditions. Due to the urgency of the situation, he agreed to everything. Kartini immediately moved and since then she discovered many mysterious things.
This film manages to be simultaneously topical and timeless. Without being preachy, it highlights society’s flawed relationship with tech; insights into the complex ideas of family struggle are expertly dispersed among a perfectly paced and balanced story.
Here are some of our picks for inclusive Black love stories in film and media. We hope you enjoy these tender love stories and beautiful depictions.
Ripley is a great character because she serves two distinct, but rewarding, purposes in the original film and the sequel.
Fire Island is the more inclusive film of the two with the bi-phobic definition of pansexuality in The Thing About Harry and its obvious lack of colour on screen
If you enjoy the bizarre, silly and entertaining world of the horror B-movies and want a break from the nuanced and poignant big budget horror releases, I have a list of gore-fests from the last ten years to enjoy this October.
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.
