Lessons From ‘The Mandalorian’: Is Feeling Nothing, ‘The Way?’
When attachments go wrong in early life, you have to toughen up. But is feeling nothing “The Way?” If you thought it was, what does it take to break free and allow love?
SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION: Think Hope Is Dangerous? 7 Reasons to Watch This Film
Feeling trapped in the quarantine of COVID-19? That’s why you should watch Shawshank Redemption more today than ever. Yes, I mean today, January 20, 2021, the day of the Inauguration, and all the days ahead.
‘THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT’: “Surviving” Trauma
The Queen’s Gambit is a tale of chess and childhood tragedy. This riveting series shows us clearly that when traumatized children try to survive adulthood, they may have questionable ways of coping. But there’s a big difference between the ways children “get by” and the ways that actually help them heal.
THE KOMINSKY METHOD: 4 Lessons In Love At Any Age
Are you having trouble making love work? Can’t seem to go with the flow in your relationships? Well, Chuck Lorre’s two-season Netflix series The Kominsky Method offers some lessons in love that just might help.
LOVE ACTUALLY: How to Keep Hope Alive?
Richard Curtis’ 2003 film classic, Love Actually, is the ultimate Christmas rom-com. After all, the Christmas holiday season is the season of love, romance, and family. But what if you couldn’t be with family because of the pandemic?
Trauma, #Never Again & Getting Out
Jordan Peele’s brilliantly conceived film Get Out does its job of shattering the myth that we’re living in a post-racial America. My great uncle, Leo Hurwitz’s film Strange Victory, did the same in 1948 after we won the war against Hitler but came home to racism here. It’s now 72 years later, and there’s still too much to be scared of.
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS Secret World Of Sexual Abuse Is There Someone To Reach Inside My Pain?
Watching Autumn’s cautious troubled face in the quietness of Never Rarely Sometimes Always draws us into the dark shattered life of a traumatized girl. If she’d let us in. Autumn lives behind walls. Alone. Vigilant. Angry. Always afraid. Can’t allow help: “I’ve got it.” People aren’t to be trusted. That she’s learned. If you think Eliza Hittman’s captivating film is only about teenage pregnancy and abortion, that’s not the whole story. By far. Never Rarely Sometimes Always reveals a world of secrets and terror. Of sexual abuse. A lonely world with no one to reach inside the pain. Or is there?
