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Drey and Dan look thoughtfully at each other in Half Nelson

Ennui on the Screen and Life Lessons

By: Ceridwen Millington 15th Sep 202014th Sep 2020

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Entertainment has often show education on the screen, but where has this representation failed and succeeded? Might it be able to even teach us how we can learn better in life itself?

Han Solo stands in front of the Millenium Falcon pointing at himself quizzically in this frame from The Empire Strikes Back

Ennui on the Screen and New Perspectives

By: Ceridwen Millington 13th Aug 202013th Aug 2020

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How can we be expected to even confront the ideas which seems antithetical to our view of the world?

This image is from the film The Matrix. Neo, wearing a black coat and glasses, stops an amass of bullets with his hand.

Ennui on the Screen and Remaining Yourself

By: Ceridwen Millington 16th Jun 202017th Jun 2020

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It can be a challenge not just to reveal yourself but, in a society keen to keep to the status quo, to continually express yourself authentically. Entertainment sheds light on this struggle.

Ennui on the Screen and the Search for Happiness

By: Ceridwen Millington 12th May 202012th May 2020

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Cinema and television have not existed as long as the millennia-spanning history of recorded philosophical thought so, in their short existences, what have they had to say about happiness?