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Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro. Netflix, 2022

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio review

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is a culmination of the director’s artistic preoccupation with the abandoned and unwanted child. In del Toro’s oeuvre, these children become symbolic of the future of a world…

The Matrix Resurrections: A Philosophical Review

It makes perfect sense that The Matrix Resurrections offers no solution at all. It was never meant to do it. Matrix was never a political plan, but the artistic expression of the…

The Matrix or the Two Sides of Perversion

When I saw The Matrix at a local theatre in Slovenia, I had the unique opportunity of sitting close to the ideal spectator of the film - namely, to an idiot.…

La Religieuse by Denis Diderot

Written around 1780, and based on the story of a French nun, who in 1758 launched a legal lawsuit to be exempted from her vows, La Religieuse (also called The Nun or Memoirs of a…

Jorge Luis Borges and his infinite worlds

Each culture, like each man, creates its paradises. The Egyptians who built the pyramids aspired to a modest little house surrounded by fertile land. Dante composed for himself a triumphal reception at…