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The History Boys 2006
A teacher and his “special” group of students have a Very British Bond where much goes unsaid while he molests or attempts to molest each and every one of the boys. The film portrays the teacher as mostly harmless, while students are presented as unrealistically mature. They fend him off with a laugh, and anyone who objects is a prig or outsider.
I try to avoid inserting too much of myself into these reviews, but I am a child and…
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018
As a child, I dreamt of superheroes.
Greek mythology was my first exposure to the fantastic. I devoured these stories and anything like them. Here was something that touched me on both a visceral and intellectual level that nothing had in my young life. Folklore and myths from all over the world augmented this wonder, and it was quite natural for me to link these modes of storytelling to the superheroes I visited through Saturday morning cartoons (and later comic…
