Hospital Playlist 2: Ep 9 On Binary Opposition

I didn’t coin this term “binary opposition.” The French anthropologist, Claude Levi-Strauss, did. He observed that in many stories told in books and films, the plot is driven by characters, values and/or concepts that are directly polar opposites. Think of Batman vs. Joker, hero vs. villain, rich vs poor, religious vs secular, engineering vs. feng […]

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Hospital Playlist 2: Ep 8 On Touching

To me, one of the things that was noticeable in this episode was Director Shin’s comparison of the physical intimacy. For expediency, I’ll give you wikipedia’s explanation of physical intimacy. Physical intimacy is sensual proximity or touching. It is an act or reaction, such as an expression of feelings (including close friendship, platonic love, romantic […]

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