Film Analysis & Storytelling

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Psychological Horror Jan 2025 · 12 min read

The Unbearable Silence of Cure (1997): What Kiyoshi Kurosawa Understands About Guilt

There are films that disturb you. And there are films that disturb you because they are telling the truth about something you have been careful not to look at directly. Cure is the second kind.

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Grief & Language 2021 · 18 min read

Drive My Car: Grief, Regret and the Weight of Silence

Hamaguchi understands that the most devastating things cannot be said directly. His film teaches writers the grammar of circling the unspeakable.

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