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Finding Closure by Accepting In-Yun as a Trace of Someone’s Presence in One’s Life: Past Lives (2023)

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When the heart is wounded, all you need is the peace you gain from closure. Closure is a craving gesture of unfinished feelings from the heart. As normal human beings, we tend to question everything that hasn't been answered yet. Questioning everything has always been the tendency of living. We, humans, often crave the answer to everything while also knowing the fact that not everything has an answer. People seek closure for their peace of mind because it's part of healing their wounded hearts. Gaining closure is an act of closing a chapter and starting another book. You don't have to finish every chapter to move on to another book. Sometimes, you have to put down the book you could not finish anymore. Whether there are participants or not, you can find the closure you need. Clarity is the heart itself convincing what it needs. When the heart's drained itself out of dissatisfaction, that's clarity. You don't have to ask people about what your heart desires. But ...

Bella Baxter Is the Epitome of Character Growth: Poor Things

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First introduced in the film as a woman with the brain of a child, Bella Baxter proves that life exploration can change a person. Despite having her brain altered, being confined, and being forbidden from doing many things for most of her life, she is able to stand tall and discover her true self. Her curiosity leads her to the place she ultimately wants to be.  Watching Bella Baxter in Poor Things is like watching human development. The audience is presented with Bella's development over time through her exploration of emotions. From someone who is trapped in an infant’s way of thinking and can't speak, she becomes a strong-willed woman in a short period of time. Everything escalates when Duncan Wedderburn asks Bella to travel with him. With Bella's curiosity, she begs Godwin until she's allowed. But deep down, Godwin knows that Duncan is no better man. However, Godwin allows her anyway, and Bella takes advantage of it.  The journey with Duncan is not just about Be...

The Open-Ending for the Girl Who Suffered Throughout Her Life and Met a Tragic End: Eleven, Stranger Things

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The final season of Stranger Things has led the audience to mixed emotions. Some were satisfied with the ending, which rolled back to the nostalgic feeling and gave them all closure. On the other hand, many people felt disappointed for various reasons. The audience's disappointment with the Stranger Things finale was due to many factors, one of them being the open ending for Eleven (Jane Hopper). Despite having an open ending that leaves it up to the audience, many people felt like they had lost someone they loved dearly. People watched her grow up only to witness her tragic ending. No matter how the ending goes, Eleven is alone, without her loved ones. From the very first season of Stranger Things , Eleven was introduced as a tool, a science experiment. Since then, it's a constant battle to survive from everyone who wants to hunt her. It is terrifying to live on the edge of uncertainty, where one must worry about one's existence so as not to be found. Always hiding one...

Generational Curse for Women in Silent Hill F

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cr: Silent Hill F The suffering of a generational curse turned into a classic, traditional Japanese nightmare. Unlike other Silent Hill series, Silent Hill F offers players the chance to enter the nightmare of Hinako , who endured the trauma of society’s expectations towards women wrapped in Japanese folklore.  The psychological hallucination in Silent Hill F serves as a key image for players to see how difficult it is for Hinako to deal with her life problems. She is forced to choose between sacrificing her life to get married or continuing her life and disappointing her parents. Hinako, who was originally an ordinary girl, had to fulfill her parents' wish for her to marry a wealthy man in order to raise her parents' social status. With all the turmoil in her heart, she unleashed her imagination, which centered on the manipulation of a fox. The fox in Hinako's story is depicted as someone manipulative, tormenting, and soothing all at once. The horror of the fox depicted in...

Kaz Brekker’s Cruelty in the Six of Crows Duology as a Form of Governmental Failure

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cr: Dani.I             Full of cruelty and vengeance. That is how Kaz Brekker is known in Ketterdam, a city noted for its violence and cruelty, as featured in The Six of Crows duology. The people of Ketterdam live in misery and poverty, making it difficult for them to survive. Violence is their answer. A government that does not care about its people has resulted in a population that must determine its own fate. Therefore, the city of Ketterdam is full of thieves who steal money from their fellow citizens.             The government in Ketterdam is money-centered. They only develop their government to benefit themselves, thereby harming their people. They deprive citizens of their rights. Corruption and bribery are normalized to justify all forms of violence. The structural violence perpetrated by the government against the citizens of Ketterdam causes the people to resort t...

The Tragic Life of Matthias Helvar: The Six of Crows Duology

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          Being punished for trying to be better is Matthias Helvar’s fate at the end of The Six of Crows duology. The worst part is that he is punished by his own people. As if fighting his morals is not enough, Matthias sacrifices his future for the sake of making his parents and his people proud. source:  @meridyan_art           Being a good  Drüskelle   means he has to kill people to be considered honorable. Despite questioning his own actions, he continues because it is his norm and his culture. Matthias grows up in Fjerdan society, where a man’s honor comes from being a  Drüskelle   soldier who hunts Grisha daily. The Fjerdans believe Grisha are witches who deserve to be tortured and killed. This generational mindset that Grisha deserves death pushes people to go above and beyond to gain honor for their families. As a result, Fjerdan people believe Grisha deserves violence regardless of having do...