by Dahlia | May 19, 2015 | Journal
Despite its glowing reviews, both by my friends and esteemed critics, Mad Max: Fury Road left me mystified and empty. What did I just see that they didn’t? What did they see that I missed? Because what I just saw was a dumbed-down spectacle of explosion and...
by Dahlia | Apr 14, 2015 | Journal
Hillary Clinton unveiled not only her presidential bid on Sunday but also her new campaign logo — and general consensus, regardless of political affiliation, is that it’s not pretty. But, in all the criticism, one of the crucial things no one is mentioning...
by Dahlia | Mar 10, 2015 | Journal
Hyperreality is used in semiotics and postmodern philosophy to describe a hypothetical inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, especially in technologically advanced postmodern cultures. Jorge Luis Borges, in “On Exactitude in Science,” wrote...
by Dahlia | Dec 22, 2014 | Journal
My feelings about Whiplash are complex, but one feeling isn’t. I hated it. I hated it with a passion. If I had seen it in theaters, I would have walked out. And here’s why: Whiplash glorifies a specific aspect of the artistic process — the grueling,...
by Dahlia | Dec 1, 2014 | Journal
In honor of AIDS Awareness Day, I’m just going to post some facts and figures. One of the things that upsets me most is the current complacency that seems to have become common around HIV/AIDS, so here are some reasons not to be complacent: In 2008, there were...
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