Double Reading

So in addition to Buffy and Angel and The L Word and The X-Files and The Simple Life and Millennium and Dallas and Dynasty and Firefly and Nip/Tuck and The Surreal Life and Queer as Folk and Sex and the City and others I am probably forgetting, for someone who “doesn’t watch TV” (and I [...]

Last night I watched Suicide Club. I would place it in a genre of Japanese films (see also: Audition, Visitor Q, Izo, etc.) that are strange and shocking for the sake of being strange and shocking, but still seem to reflect on serious issues that less strange and less shocking American films delve into.
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In what would have to be one of my favorite examples of “over-reading an under-read text” or “double reading,” I’ve come across “A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope: Reconsidering Star Wars IV in the light of I-III“ by Keith Martin, which reinterprets Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope based on the events [...]