The Wizard of Oz
If I'm Honest, It Could Use A Little Work
In this mostly Technicolor romp through thinly veiled metaphors, Judy Garland holds the audience - and herself - together through sheer force of will. A blend of innocence and ennui, of adventure and the homesickness that pulls you back, Depression-era audiences everywhere will wish they too could ride a tornado to Oz.
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Standing While Falling
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche "He who wrestles long with monsters should beware lest he himself become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Man is not destroyed by suffering, but by the meaning he makes of it."
By LUCCIAN LAYTH5 days ago in Critique
The Lost City of Z
The Lost City of Z by David Grann Growing up I thought I wanted to be an archaeologist. Now that I’m a ripe 32, I realize what I really wanted to be was an adventurer–someone who dug deep into the dark and emerged with treasures unseen for millennia.
By Matthew J. Fromm6 days ago in Critique
A Failed Artist, A Disillusioned Poet, An Underpaid Game Show Host
I took my son and niece to Gori, a small town in Georgia where Joseph Stalin was born. They talked me into visiting the Stalin's Museum, the largest in the post-Soviet space. I had resisted going there because I just can't stand the monster and know enough about him, or so I thought.
By Lana V Lynx6 days ago in FYI
Comments (9)
Always found the ending anticlimactic. Great critique. I want to live my life in Technicolour.
Very good mini critique.
Great mini critique. Well done!
A nice contrast of the writing versus the film—indeed indicative of the times. Well done, and congrats!
Great to see an up-to-date critique of one of my favorite works of American literature. Written in an earlier era of economic low, filmed in another. Well done and congratulations on your win.
I don't mind it. She should have stayed in Oz...and maybe follow the red brick road! ;)
I was not a lover of this film as a child, but it was my toddler daughter's fixation, and I found out it was outstanding.
This was fantastic! Excellent review!
Nice 💖🎉