http://www.radicalposture.com/blog Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:38:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=175 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=175#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:34:34 +0000 mdc http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=175 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=175 0 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=91 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=91#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:40:38 +0000 mdc http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=91 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=91 0 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=80 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=80#comments Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:51:29 +0000 mdc http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=80 God is D_ad benefits heavily from the I see what you were going for factor. The title does suggest a lot of what's to come -- not in its reference to Nietzsche's largely misunderstood proposition; rather, the quote appears early in the film, never to be seen or heard from again.]]> http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=80 0 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=63 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=63#comments Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:01:33 +0000 mdc http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=63 The food stalls appeared, and that's when the dread took hold. Any minute now, "All the leaves are brown..." A girl with short-cropped hair would be bobbing her head to one side and breaking into apartments. A cop would have a conversation with his washcloth. So little happening over such a long, long time. As it turns out, Arvin Chen is no Wong Kar Wai; and this is a very good thing.]]> http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=63 0 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=52 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=52#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:10:33 +0000 mdc http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=52 The major theme that I noticed was one of transposing some of the roles typically found in the genre. It does go against the archetype to have a girl preoccupied with science, rather than a boy. Without calling special attention to the fact, the family's heritage is explicitly Indian American; rather than, say, the patronizing stereotypes, however benignly intended, a more mainstream movie would generally resort to for comic relief.]]> http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=52 0 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=44 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=44#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:32:21 +0000 mdc http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=44 I was prompted to read this by the claim that it was the first fictional work to inspire suicides. In other words, it's the kind of book I hope to write. This quick read hearkens back to a day when people were melancholy, despairing, crestfallen -- when clinical depression had some class.]]> http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=44 0 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=30 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=30#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:23:07 +0000 mdc http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=30 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=30 0 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=29 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=29#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:02:45 +0000 mdc http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=29 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=29 0 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=28 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=28#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:46:41 +0000 mdc http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=28 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=28 0 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=27 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=27#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:09:32 +0000 mdc http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?p=27 http://www.radicalposture.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=27 0