Vesa Kuosmanen
@vessumon.bsky.social
A vegan filmmaker dreaming of a world without hierarchies ❤️🔥 he/they. From Finland. With compassion .
Explaining character behaviour with their traumas makes dull plots.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Case Against the Trauma Plot
Fiction writers love it. Filmmakers can’t resist it. But does this trope deepen characters, or flatten them into a set of symptoms?
www.newyorker.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Explaining character behaviour with their traumas makes dull plots.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
An in-depth look at Israel oppression of Palestinians and how it has contributed to the military actions of Hamas.
#stopgenocide #freepalestine
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
#stopgenocide #freepalestine
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tom Stevenson · Illusions of Containment: Versions of Hamas
Hamas had been able to take power in Gaza because Israel had failed to circumscribe Palestinian politics within the Oslo...
www.lrb.co.uk
March 6, 2025 at 8:23 AM
An in-depth look at Israel oppression of Palestinians and how it has contributed to the military actions of Hamas.
#stopgenocide #freepalestine
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
#stopgenocide #freepalestine
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...