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When I discovered that I was pregnant, my immediate concern was how I could stop being pregnant as soon as possible. I had consistently denounced the prospect of motherhood – or at least of myself as mother – since I was a child. As a twenty-six-year-old student who had recently broken up with and tentativelyContinue reading “The Potential for Life – Conception, Inception, Disconception”

The Suicide Squad is concerned with a group of misfit anti-heroes who are temporarily released from prison to perform the bidding of the military industrial complex, with the likelihood of their demise rationalised by the state’s devaluation of the lives of convicted criminals. Under James Gunn’s direction, the film unites the playfulness of the MarvelContinue reading “Suicide Squad: Solemnity in the State of the Superhero Film”

The absence of new material on View Kid during the past ten months coincided with a resolution to produce a greater volume of less substantive film reviews. The purpose of this endeavour was to limber up my writing skills and diminish perfectionist tendencies. The film-oriented social networking website – Letterboxd – proved to be theContinue reading “Letterboxd – An Anthology”

Withnail and I is a comedic horror about the recognition of one’s own depravity and its consequences. The narrative centres upon Withnail and Marwood (the titular ‘I’), a pair of impoverished creatives astounded by the indignity of their own circumstances, though doing nothing to improve upon them. Indeed, they live in a less dignified mannerContinue reading “Withnail and I”

“What is the ape to man? A laughing stock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman.” Friedrich Nietzsche The Ubermensch is an ethical ideal proposed by Friedrich Nietzsche and represents the type of life he believed could be justified as worth living in a fundamentally meaningless world. Nietzsche formulatedContinue reading “Knie vor dem Ubermenschen”

The Last Jedi indulges its audience in a wealth of rich imagery, the most distinct of which is a tie between the unexpectedly sensual reveal of Kylo Ren’s tree trunk of a shirtless torso, and the unexpectedly disturbing image of Luke Skywalker’s green-milk-encrusted beard following his molestation of a sea cow. These scenes speak toContinue reading “Star Wars Episode VIII – The Last Jedi”

Not being the type to give up on something problematic, I returned to The Force Awakens this week as the starting point for my incremental Star Wars marathon. By incremental, I mean I’ll be watching the movies in my own good time instead of bingeing all nine like a psychopath. I would like to sayContinue reading “Star Wars Episode VII – The Force Awakens”

The Dead Don’t Die follows a local police outfit comprised of Cliff (Bill Murray) and Ronnie (Adam Driver) as they deal with a zombie uprising in the claustrophobically small town of Centerville. In classic Jim Jarmusch style, it is perhaps misleading to say that these characters deal with anything; rather, they have meandering conversations whileContinue reading “The Dead Don’t Die”