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Category: Criticism

Sexual Violence is Not Art: A Critique of Andrew Dominik’s Blonde

Posted on December 3, 2022December 4, 2023 by Amelia Winn

By Amelia Winn ’25 Managing Editor “There’s something in it to offend everyone,” Andrew Dominik proudly claimed when asked about the critiques of his wildly incendiary film, Blonde. With a 42% on Rotten Tomatoes and armed with arthouse film aesthetics, Dominik has induced an outcry in response to its inaccuracies about the life of Norma…

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DOWN Reads

Posted on December 2, 2022March 11, 2023 by DOWN Editors

This week features recommendations from Tyler Watts ’25, our wonderful Creative Director. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin This book is gonna hurt. Short enough to read it in a day, but trust that in the weeks that follow you won’t be able to get it out of your head. So much is revealed about relationships,…

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Kill The Cool Girl

Posted on October 28, 2022December 2, 2022 by Anaiis Rios-Kasoga

By Anaiis Rios-Kasoga ’25 Editor-In-Chief You never get angry that he gives half while you give whole. You never miss out. You never skip meals, at least not when he’s looking. You never say no. You laugh at everything he says. Your mouth is permanently frozen in that unassuming yes/no smile. You live on his…

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DOWN Reads

Posted on October 28, 2022March 11, 2023 by DOWN Editors

This week features recommendations from Nora Hylton ’25, our wonderful Criticism Editor. The Idiot Summary: A spiraling presentation of the first year of college told from the perspective of Selin, a Turkish-American student at Harvard Univeristy. The novel follows the narrator as she rambles her way through making friends, struggling in classes, and becomes involved…

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Can Representation Save Us?

Posted on October 28, 2022December 31, 2022 by Contributing Writers

By Humyra Karim ’26 Staff Writer  Like clockwork, every few media cycles, another classic story or character is remade as slightly more progressive. And as usual so-called “traditionalist” Twitter trolls emerge ready to spew their repetitive vitriol in the name of source authenticity. This month it was Scooby-Doo, last month it was The Little Mermaid,…

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