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It’s a Wonderful Life, Even in 2020
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It’s a Wonderful Life, Even in 2020

Dec 20, 2020 | By Sharla Moody BK ‘22

Note: this review contains spoilers for It’s a Wonderful Life

Every December my family watches the Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life. [1] One year, we went to the single-screen retro cinema down the street from our house called The Colony Club, which has unfortunately permanently closed its doors.

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Seeing Each Other
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Seeing Each Other

Oct 11, 2020 | By Sharla Moody BK '22

There are few things harder to grapple with in this world than the realization that our loved ones are just as imperfect as everyone else. This perhaps marks the change from child to adult, when we learn that our parents are not gods, but rather complex and flawed people just like ourselves. When we meet a new romantic partner, at first it seems that they can do no wrong. Yet the U.S.’s depressingly high divorce rate suggests otherwise. We sometimes view love—not just romantic love, but also familial—through rose-colored lenses. But the people we love dearly can also cut us deeply precisely because we love them.

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Logos Reviews:   Eden Reimagined in First Cow</em>
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Logos Reviews: Eden Reimagined in First Cow

July 28, 2020 | by Sharla Moody BK ‘22. Sharla is majoring in English

NOTE: Spoilers ahead     

      

Kelly Reichardt’s minimalist film First Cow[1] premiered in August of 2019 at Telluride and enjoyed an extremely limited release in March this year before it was pulled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this week, it was made available for rental on digital, and I was able to enjoy what has been hailed as one of the best movies of the year.[2] Slow and friendly, the film concerns the adventures of Cookie, a trapper and cook in the Oregon Territory in the 1820s, and his new companion, King-Lu, a Chinese immigrant with a fuzzy history and fuzzier intentions.

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