"It’s not that I wanted to keep you all to myself, Nana. I just wanted you to need me."

Nana is the definitive anime depicting interpersonal dynamics, romance, heartbreak, self-discovery, and coming of age. It grapples with these immense themes in a playful, down-to-earth, mature, and beautiful way that is very human and relatable to many of us. At times, Nana can simultaneously be gut-wrenching and humorous, with a great balance. It’s a very entertaining and thoughtful experience that’s highly…

“But is there a line? You know, maybe you go too far, and you discourage the next Charlie Parker from ever becoming Charlie Parker?”
“No, man, no. Because the next Charlie Parker would never be discouraged.”

Whiplash is a meditation on the unrelenting drive, obsessive perfectionism, inhuman personal sacrifices, and borderline insanity required for rare talented individuals to truly achieve all-time greatness. From mandatory harsh routines, irreparable damage and destroying of certain interpersonal relationships, foregoing of many simple pleasures, or…

“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
― Frida Kahlo

Coin tosses, car accidents, or the encountering of a murderous psychopath on a seemingly perfectly normal sunny day; Our universe belongs to the hands of uncertainty, absurdism, and chance. Nothing is guaranteed or promised. These laws enter our lives from the day we’re born and have an insurmountable number of influences and outcomes that will have an unlimited amount of both welcomed and…

“Wisdom is holding two contradictory truths in our mind, simultaneously, Hope and despair. A life without despair is a life without hope.”

Dealing heavily with the external conflicts that our current socially isolated modern societies are facing regarding climate change and hypercapitalism, we witness one of cinema's greatest spiral out of control in the character study of reverend Toller. Delving into themes of existentialism, antinatalism, extremism, and even the questioning and loss of one’s very own core beliefs, due to…