Column Archives | High On Films https://www.highonfilms.com/category/column/ Taking Care of Your Cinematic Ecstasy Fri, 25 Aug 2023 16:50:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-logo-mark-colour-01-32x32.png Column Archives | High On Films https://www.highonfilms.com/category/column/ 32 32 How the Depiction of Trauma Humanizes One Killer and Villainizes the Other in ‘Por Thozhil’ https://www.highonfilms.com/how-the-depiction-of-trauma-humanizes-one-killer-and-villainizes-the-other-in-por-thozhil/ https://www.highonfilms.com/how-the-depiction-of-trauma-humanizes-one-killer-and-villainizes-the-other-in-por-thozhil/#respond Fri, 25 Aug 2023 11:46:30 +0000 https://www.highonfilms.com/?p=100553 Por Thozhil (2023): Trauma and its effects on the human psyche are extraordinarily fascinating and unpredictable. Murder mysteries have long been associated with trauma, where the filmmakers have often shown traumatic incidents from the life of the killers to give the audience an insight into their minds and as a probable explanation of why they…

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]]> https://www.highonfilms.com/how-the-depiction-of-trauma-humanizes-one-killer-and-villainizes-the-other-in-por-thozhil/feed/ 0 ‘Taali’ (2023) Offers a Heart-Wrenching and Empowering Look into the Life of a Trans Activist https://www.highonfilms.com/taali-2023-series-column/ https://www.highonfilms.com/taali-2023-series-column/#respond Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:34:03 +0000 https://www.highonfilms.com/?p=100259 The series Taali (2023) consists of six episodes and revolves around the many struggles of Shreegauri Sawant (Sushmita Sen) – a transgender activist from Mumbai – to establish her identity and advocate for transgender rights. Directed by Ravi Jadhav and created by Arjun Singgh Baran and Kartik D Nishandar, Taali (2023) can be divided into…

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]]> https://www.highonfilms.com/taali-2023-series-column/feed/ 0 The Coexistence of Love and Violence in ‘Guns & Gulaabs’ https://www.highonfilms.com/the-coexistence-of-love-and-violence-in-guns-gulaabs/ https://www.highonfilms.com/the-coexistence-of-love-and-violence-in-guns-gulaabs/#respond Mon, 21 Aug 2023 15:11:49 +0000 https://www.highonfilms.com/?p=100161 The Coexistence of Love and Violence in ‘Guns & Gulaabs’: Love and Violence are the two most essential ingredients of any Bollywood series or film for centuries. Bollywood or Indian mainstream cinema has consumerized love and violence to such an extent that a movie or series devoid of these two things seems incomplete and doesn’t…

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]]> https://www.highonfilms.com/the-coexistence-of-love-and-violence-in-guns-gulaabs/feed/ 0 Lee Chang-dong’s ‘Oasis’ and the Eligibility of Love https://www.highonfilms.com/lee-chang-dongs-oasis-and-the-eligibility-of-love/ https://www.highonfilms.com/lee-chang-dongs-oasis-and-the-eligibility-of-love/#respond Fri, 18 Aug 2023 16:12:29 +0000 https://www.highonfilms.com/?p=99900 “I’m sorry to tell you this … but I really don’t like you. I know these sound harsh words, but with you out of the way, I was living well. Without you, we had no worries. Not only me, your brother, and your mom feel the same way. I didn’t want to tell you, but…

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]]> https://www.highonfilms.com/lee-chang-dongs-oasis-and-the-eligibility-of-love/feed/ 0 ’Hiroshima Mon Amour’ is a Poignant Intermixture of History with Memories of Love, Loss, and Suffering https://www.highonfilms.com/hiroshima-mon-amour-1959-column/ https://www.highonfilms.com/hiroshima-mon-amour-1959-column/#respond Fri, 18 Aug 2023 05:30:26 +0000 https://www.highonfilms.com/?p=99858 History and memory go hand in hand. We can never escape our memories that are steeped in history. We have to live with it, whether it’s bitter or sweet. Alain Resnais was a French film director and screenwriter who adopted unconventional narrative techniques to deal with themes of troubled memories and the imagined past. Resnais,…

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