BARBIE’S QUEST FOR REALITY

by Huang Alice, Can the mass-market movie Barbie by Greta Gerwig (2023) be seen as a critique of its own ideology? And what does Buddhism have to do with it? If we’re still arguing about whether Barbie is a feminist win or a patriarchal sellout, we’ve missed the point entirely. Greta Gerwig’s pink blockbuster isn’t here to pick[…]

DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB

One year before the release of Stanley Kubrick’s film mankind faced the Cuban Missile Crisis. In 2022 the world entered another turbulent phase. The characters try to find common ground in Stanley Kubrick’s political anti-war satire. The threat of nuclear catastrophe pushes them to do it. It could happen any minute. But it turns out that[…]