Enbion Micah Aan

Review: Drifting Paris

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What now that capitalism has learned to embrace, eat, and digest attempts at subversion and criticism to the point that anti-capitalism becomes a vital force for capital?

From No Man Is an Island
On May 10, 2022
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Having Faith in a Secular World

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When secularism is practically a religion, what does it mean to believe, be spiritual, and attempt to see beyond ourselves? Does life have no meaning beyond what we are capable of understanding?

From No Man Is an Island
On July 20, 2021
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Movie Review: Green Girl: Greta

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Tension between Thunberg’s genuine wishes and her being the symbol of the overall climate movement and institutions’ stubborn refusal to act is at the very core of the film. The most successful and often poignant moments of the film is for us to understand the emotional context of what Thunberg famously said in conferences, in explaining Thunberg’s frustration and anger in her speeches.

From No Man Is an Island
On June 29, 2021
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Gunda: A World Imbued with Mystery, Love, and Beauty

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Gunda is the kind of documentary film that makes cinema art, a world imbued with mystery, love, and beauty.

Gunda
From No Man Is an Island
On May 4, 2021
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Minari And The Asian American Working Class

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While the characters in Crazy Rich Asians aspire to whiteness, the family in Minari simply wants to survive and live in their realities.

From No Man Is an Island
On April 23, 2021
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Review: Minari (夢想之地)

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If Crazy Rich Asians is about the 1 percent, Minari is about the remaining 99 percent.

From No Man Is an Island
On April 15, 2021
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Film Review: Get The Hell Out (逃出立法院)

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Zombies infiltrate Taiwan's legislature in this clumsy political satire

From No Man Is an Island
On March 18, 2021
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Memorializing the White Terror

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Taiwan's historical trauma is not an isolated phenomenon.

From No Man Is an Island
On March 9, 2021

Film Review: Tenet

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Tenet is a political sequel to The Dark Knight.

From No Man Is an Island
On February 16, 2021

Review: The People, No by Thomas Frank

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Class struggle was once a significant political force in the United States, and it can be again.

From No Man Is an Island
On February 9, 2021

Chen Cheng-Hsiung’s ‘Ordinary People’ Are Anything But

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The Tainan Art Museum has some of Chen Cheng-Hsiung's most well-known works on display currently. These pieces are from his mature period and are very fine examples of his work

From No Man Is an Island
On February 4, 2021

Hung Tung: A Painter with a Curious Brush

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What perhaps can explain the public’s embrace of Hung Tung is probably the most obvious feature of his paintings — that they are cute.

From No Man Is an Island
On January 26, 2021

Review: Cracks And Glimmers Photography

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When a guest stepped on some bricks, Sun joked that 'Tripping is part of the exhibition!'

From No Man Is an Island
On January 12, 2021