D.Z.
To live, and to reflect upon life.
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Reflektioner #1: Tidens tysta skulptör
Ett plötsligt möte med en bekantskap från förr. En hastig förnimmelse om det förflutna. En transport tillbaka i tiden, och ett möte med ett yngre jag.
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A book reflection: On the darker side of womanhood – The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir
Set in mid-century Paris, Simone de Beauvoir beautifully and empathetically tells the story of three Parisienne women past the first blossoms of youth, each facing her own crisis in life. With unflinching honesty de Beauvoir dissects the experience of the female existence through a uniquely female lens, whilst meditating on the meaninglessness of life, existentialism,…
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A film recollection – Lost in Translation: “Let’s never come here again, because it would never be as much fun”
From an unexpected encounter at the bar at the Hyatt Hotel in Tokyo, Japan, a brief but intimate friendship arises between two strangers. Bob, a fading middle-aged American movie star finds himself in Tokyo for a lucrative Whiskey commercial, and Charlotte, a conflicted newlywed and recent Yale Philosophy graduate accompanies her photographer-husband on a business…
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A book reflection: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami – A Tokyo with two moons
The world in year 1Q84 is similar to our own, with the exception that there are two moons in the sky instead of one. As we are stuck in a taxicab in traffic jam on the Metropolitan Expressway in Tokyo, Japan with the young woman Aomame and Janacek’s Sinfonietta softly playing in the background, the…
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A film analysis: The Reluctant Fundamentalist – A tale of East and West
Behind the impeccably dressed Muslim Wall Street businessman lurks an Islamic terrorist. Could our prejudice possibly exceed this statement? The primary aim in the life of Pakistani Changez Khan is to assess companies’ values. In order to accomplish that achievement, one is to resort to the market fundamentals, according to him. With an Ivy League…
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