Category Archives: Mind=blown

Peace in the Pieces Disassembled: Deconstructing Hannibal, part IV

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IV. The Sessions i. A Dull Ache “Being alone comes with a dull ache, doesn’t it?” , asks Franklyn in one of his sessions with Dr. Lecter. Hannibal replies with a simple “It can”. He will later comment further on the subject, when he tries to persuade Will that he is a killer. “At a time […]

Peace in the Pieces Disassembled: Deconstructing Hannibal, part III

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III. Folie à deux In the first part of this deconstruction (I. When Hannibal Fed Will’s dogs) I promised to write a few things on Hannibal’s true motives. For this part of the analysis it is crucial that we all concur that Hannibal is a very intelligent, multilayered, complex character.  Hannibal’s motives must never be too […]

Peace in the Pieces Disassembled: Deconstructing Hannibal, part II

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II. What Would Freud Say? For anyone who’s ever read Sigmund Freud, it is obvious that the two protagonists are manifestations of the two opposing elements in his structural model of the human psyche/mind: id and superego. But, let’s start with the basics, for all those who haven’t read Freud;  presuming that you have read […]

Peace in the Pieces Disassembled : Deconstructing Hannibal, part I

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Now that I have watched Relevés and I have most of the pieces -or at least the corners- of this amazing puzzle, this totem pole of beauty and horror and awesome that Bryan Fuller created, I can finally start writing about it. The current post is the first part in a series of posts that I […]

This was supposed to be A Comprehensive List of Short Animation Films; it’s not

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We ‘ve all watched the short animation Paperman several times during the past 3-4 days. It is the most shared/retweeted/reblogged link I’ve seen lately, and it got me  thinking that I should finally make this list I’ve promised myself  for so long; a list of all the Short Animation Films I’ve ever watched. Yeah, right. […]

Για τους ντοκυμαντεράκηδες

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Έφτιαξα, που λες, λίστα στο letterboxd με αγαπημένα documentaries. Είμαι ακόμα στην αρχή βέβαια, έχω πολλά ακόμα να δω, πολλά να προσθέσω από αυτά που έχω ήδη δει… Αυτό που με εκνευρίζει είναι που κάποια πολύ αγαπημένα μου, όπως το The doctor who hears voices, The Medicated Child, όλα τα Private Life of a Masterpiece, […]