Past Lives: a luxurious and lingering portrayal of lost love and identity in the Korean diaspora: Past Lives is Celine Song’s debut film about Nora and Hae Sung who were deeply connected in childhood. The film focuses on them reuniting as adults after a long separation. The film introduces global audiences to the Korean Buddhist …
Beyond The Story: BTS biography is a humanising, literary portrayal of K-pop’s world-leading stars: In a climate of ever-increasing competition, it’s a real feat when any band makes it to their tenth anniversary bigger than ever. Such is the case with K-pop group BTS (short for bangtan sonyeondan, “bulletproof boy scouts” in Korean). The band …
Turning Red’s portrayal of ancestor worship highights an important part of Chinese culture: Pixar/Disney+ Disney’s new Pixar film, Turning Red, follows Meilin “Mei” Lee, a 13-year-old living in Toronto, Canada. She’s an average teenager contending with all the things girls her age do (boys, friends, school). However, she has the added pressure of making her …
The Underground Railroad: a heartbreakingly beautiful and brutal portrayal of the journey to ‘freedom’: “You are standing on a train platform, fear of missing the train from slavery to time. There is so much you have never said … and so little time to articulate.” So speaks the male voice over the sound system as …
The Dig on Netflix: a refreshingly accurate portrayal of an excavation – according to an archaeologist: Edith Pretty was convinced that the mounds on her land in Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, held important archaeological secrets. In 1939, on the eve of the second world war, she was proven right as the sumptuous ship burial of an …
In its portrayal of women, the classic South African novel Mhudi was ahead of its time: A statue of the author, Solomon T. Plaatje, in Kimberley, South Africa. flowcomm/Flickr, CC BY-SA Solomon T. Plaatje was born in 1876 and was one of the founding members of South Africa’s current ruling party, the African National Congress. …