
Pai, a handsome young man but an orphan, lives with his uncle. Until he had to go to work as a sex worker in a bar, with Bora, his close friend, looking for customers. Until one day, Bora took Pai to see customers in a hotel. Confused about room numbers, Pai then went into the room of Jenny, Bora's younger sister. After that night Jenny and Pai have a chance to get close and begin to have feelings for each other, but Bora has to try to block them out in every possible way.
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.
This is a list of seven films that explore police brutality and systemic racism made by Black filmmakers. These are important movies to watch and to take in, as — through the power of cinema — they showcase what it feels like to be a Black person living in a country that is internally designed to be against you.
"First Day" is a trans kid slice-of-life tv show that brings desperately needed diversity to coming-of-age stories in mainstream media. Here's a show that get's it right by having a trans actress in a story centered on trans girlhood.
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.
Director Martin Scorsese broadens his boundaries from mafia-driven movies, to a Buddhist biopic of the 14th Dalai Lama. While Buddhism strives for peace, ‘Kundun’ reveals the violence inflicted on Tibetan Buddhists and Scorsese’s depiction of violence does not stray away.