Mimo le Singe

Visual media are a huge part of our lives, and here I want to share with you several that have shaped my youth, most of which are Concerned Children's Advertisers' public service announcements. Please note that I'm only discussing the ones I've seen.

I haven't exclaimed, "Oh, my God" as many times while watching any other movie in my life.

In his endeavour to establish sociology as an independent discipline within the social sciences, widely cited chief engineer Émile Durkheim had developed distinct “social facts” that elucidate every individual’s behaviour on a societal scale (Kivisto 44). Critics, nonetheless, have contended that while humans are influenced by their environments, Durkheim had neglected the notion of self-agency as a factor in social change (Kivisto 44).

Jennifer Lopez is a public figure who many people would refuse to call a bonafide "triple threat" in the entertainment industry, and I believe this is a rather unfair judgement of her abilities, if we deliberate over her 30+ years of work in both music and film. Case in point for the latter: her acting in, and co-producing of, Hustlers, a film that not only presents a near-accurate depiction of an actual strippers's scam timeline, but also the nuances and complexities of life as a female stripper.

I have been critiquing virtually all forms of entertainment media for almost seven years now, and the longer I do this, the more I sympathise with other critics' increasing exhaustion with the endeavour. Not because it gets boring—although I do very much like to save my creative juices for other projects in the interest of exploring other challenge-filled avenues—but because it sometimes feels like audiences don't understand or appreciate why critique exists in the first place.

Disney's Hercules somehow manages to have so many good bits in a wholly convoluted film. What I felt like was supposed to be a sort of follow up to Aladdin ended up being a battle between mismatched motifs, unresolved plot threads, and a few legitimately good characters wallowing in their unrealized potential.