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It’s incredible how with CGI, companies from all over the globe can contribute to create really cinematically beautiful films! Like, I’m from Adelaide, Australia, and it’s nuts how companies like Rising Sun Pictures have helped in massive block busters such as X Men and The Hunger Games!

I’m not quite sure about how I feel about the television show but you’re absolutely right. In ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Atwood explores themes of female subjugation extremely well, which is so important and still relevant today. So many of her novels are applicable to present day society and help to challenge and start a conversation about different issues.

In my creative writing class this morning we were discussing vignettes and Tarantino came up as an example. Although I haven’t watched Four Rooms yet myself, my tutor was going on about it with such enthusiasm that I’ll have to watch it! (I know this was written in 2015 but I thought I’d just chime in haha)

“Nowadays, toys are a scapegoat for unimaginative adults to use while attempting to validate their own political agendas.” This is by far the best and most eye-catching opening line of an article of read in a while! Thank you so much for this beautifully dissected piece. Growing up with a younger brother, we often shared (stole) each others toys, so I was always more of lego kid. However, I still had a massive obsession with plush toys although I never knew exactly where this stemmed from. Definitely an interesting topic to consider further.

I absolutely love this show! It’s incredible that the creators just came up with it as they went along! Of course I understand that a lot of work went into it, having to adapt episodes depending on budget, casting issues, popularity etc. would be highly stressful. Watching all the special features really makes you consider it from a different perceptive. For example, I always found that the song used at the very end of the series, Baby Blue, was quite fitting and melancholy, however, after watching the creators opinions I felt it was more so ironic and sort of funny. It was beautifully summed up the whole show and concluded it well.

I have just started watching this series after my brother recommended it to me. So far I’m really enjoy the way it highlights contemporary societal issues through comedy. In a similar fashion to Archer, although perhaps less crudely, Bojack offers an insight into people questioning existentialist nature of existence. I wish we could have studied this TV show rather than exploring the principles of existentialism through Fly Away Peter during high school.

The first time I watched the Force Awakens was in Japan (a day after the rest of the world). After the film finished, I was amazed to hear so many young Japanese Star Wars fans discussing who Rey really was. Although majority of the fans were not theorising to the extent of this article, I was surprised to hear one boy decisively concluding that Samuel L. Jackson must be Rey’s father. He went on to say that the second film will probably include a dramatic scene where Rey carves the words, ‘Bad Mother Fucker,’ into her lightsaber.