On this site will be posted analyses of popular media productions. These analyses will have to do with determining the underlying meanings of various movies, songs, and certain novels. Methods used to analyze a given production will include exploration of the creators' use of symbolism, allegory, metaphor, etc., and deciphering any arcane or obscure references that it may contain.
Above left: A stewardess is served a meal while viewing a judo match, on a video monitor in the lunar lander lounge. Above right: A close-up of the match being watched. Left: 'The Bride' (played by Uma Thurman, wearing gold outfit) fights off eighty-eight sword-wielding men in Tarantino's Kill Bill Volume I. The wild, pretentious, in some cases almost ridiculous, violence portrayed in some of Tarantino's films, for example, the martial-arts type violence such as that in Kill Bill, is Tarantino's way of sending us the same message that Kubrick was: We as a society have gotten to the point where we too casually accept violence, not only that in movies, but real-life violence as well.
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Saint Augustine's Confessions andCity of God from Wikisource (except where otherwise noted); portions from Wikisource used on this blog are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
Saint Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica from the 'Logos Virtual Library' website (except where otherwise noted), compiled and edited by Darren L. Slider; believed to be in public domain.
Above left: A stewardess is served a meal while viewing a judo match, on a video monitor in the lunar lander lounge. Above right: A close-up of the match being watched. Left: 'The Bride' (played by Uma Thurman, wearing gold outfit) fights off eighty-eight sword-wielding men in Tarantino's Kill Bill Volume I. The wild, pretentious, in some cases almost ridiculous, violence portrayed in some of Tarantino's films, for example, the martial-arts type violence such as that in Kill Bill, is Tarantino's way of sending us the same message that Kubrick was: We as a society have gotten to the point where we too casually accept violence, not only that in movies, but real-life violence as well.
