My Aftertaste review of Jordan Peele’s Us — a chilling allegorical horror film that dresses the French Revolution in postmodern American clothes. Privilege, shallow altruism, and the Tethered rising from underground: Peele never tells you what to think. He just makes sure you can’t stop.
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Aftertaste: A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar
Megha Majumdar’s A Guardian and a Thief: where the climate crisis is the moral engine, not the setting, and everyone, eventually, is both guardian and thief
Aftertaste: A Few Good Men
A reflective review of A Few Good Men, exploring honour, military code, institutional power, and moral responsibility. This iconic courtroom drama uses sharp dialogue and unforgettable performances to examine what happens when duty is separated from conscience.
Aftertaste: Glenn by Jean-Michel Basquiat
A reflective response to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Glenn at MoMA, exploring confusion, discomfort, contemporary art, and the possibility that ugliness, defiance, and emotional urgency may be part of the work’s genius.
Aftertaste: The Housekeeper and The Professor (博士の愛した数式) by Yōko Ogawa
A quiet, tender novel about memory, numbers, and the strange intimacy of being known in fragments. The Housekeeper and the Professor left me thinking about mathematics as beauty, affection as discipline, and the small, sacred rituals through which love makes itself felt.