#social-commentary

#social-commentary

In near-future Thailand, food is scarce, but federal propaganda assures us that life is worse elsewhere. Purposefully isolated from the outside world, Thai society is still more or less functional, thanks in part to the efforts of a wealthy entrepreneur named Mr Vasu, who popularized a new type of food made from processed insects.

The production confronts the audience with a modern take on Romeo and Juliet, emphasizing concepts of racism and social division between Noughts and Crosses.

LooksMapping is an interactive heat map evaluating the attractiveness of diners at nearly 10,000 restaurants in New York City using AI to analyze Google Maps reviews.

The psychological thriller series is a commentary on social and economic inequalities, using dark impulses of mankind to highlight real-life terrible people.

Gladys cannot evade the Wheels of Fate, a.k.a. Bertha's plans, unless she takes big and irrevocable swings! Even an elopement may not be enough.

For Noam Welz, fashion is a physical form of commentary, a surface for emotion, provocation, and social reflection.

The film portrays a dystopian vision of life in America in 2073, emphasizing widespread decay and societal collapse due to current trends.

Shame I had to leave the job I loved, but better that than working for dickheads. If they're not interested in you, it is not worth trying to change them from within.

Kinnard never expected the Brown Bomber to appear anywhere other than his sketchbook until the editor of his college newspaper asked him to contribute comics weekly.

Every household had been sent a Protect and survive pamphlet because of the threat of nuclear war: Guns Before Butter tapped into that paranoia.

The film delicately tackles themes of gender inequality in academia while weaving an engaging narrative about time travel, forcing the characters to adapt to a modern world.

One of the joys of being an old lady is not giving a damn about workout clothes. All that matters is we are still here and can move—just!

There's jobs where nobody tips like, you know, you work behind the grill at a McDonald's, I work behind the grill, I never got a fucking tip.

"The play takes place in the living room of The Cloisters, a homey sanitarium where three evil stepchildren...have placed their wealthy widowed stepmother, Ethel Savage..."

The Blind Date column brings together two strangers who enjoy a candid exploration of dating life, discussing everything from competitive sports to personal preferences.

One reason why the public turned on diversity, equity and inclusion was its insistence that roughly 70% of the country was stereotyped as victimizers by virtue of their skin color.

The series finale of Andor showcases a grounded narrative focusing on ordinary characters, illustrating their slow transformation into revolutionaries amid systemic oppression.

A common thread in the two shows below is how they nail the catharsis of placing blame. Be it baseless scapegoating or calling out the genuinely guilty...

"It's music for a statistically wealthy population that somehow can't afford food or medicine-endlessly scrolling past vacation photos, gym selfies, and images of child amputees in the same feed."

"I wanted to look at how the big structures of power - whiteness, class and money - are wielded in the same way as smaller forms of power like desire, wit and charm."

"A lot of my friends from college went into fields like banking for financial reasons - obviously people have school loans and things to pay off... So I've started to see people looking more toward their own passions... obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure..."

The campaign to restrict smartphone usage in under-14s faces practical challenges when essential services, like public transportation, require smartphone apps.

Barbara Pym was a writer of genius - brave, kind, intelligent, brilliantly funny, and endlessly re-readable.

For several hours March 26, Ham stood shivering on a small box in the cold, at the corner of East Houston and Lafayette streets in NoHo, wearing nothing but his drawers and a pair of socks, just spitting distance from a large Calvin Klein underwear billboard.

Jimmy Kimmel humorously criticized the media's portrayal of military leaders, contrasting Pete Hegseth's television presence with Lloyd Austin's dedication to his duties, blending humor with criticism.

At film school, we had a teacher who was a little too full of himself. We were going to learn how to analyse and review a movie in one of his classes, and he made a huge mistake by choosing one of his own movies for us to work with. That didn't go well, since the movie above was, well, to put it nicely, a steaming pile of shit. Well, we did our work, and we all put some very well-founded, well-worded, and well-written criticism in our works, and handed our stuff over, while mentally doing the sign of the cross. We knew that this wasn't going to go down well. The next time we had a lesson with that teacher, he proceeded with having a full-blown mega-meltdown in front of the whole class, to the point where he literally started tearing up our reviews and tossing them all over the room, which he then practically ran out of while raging, screaming, and crying.

Art like this empowers us to time travel and explore what our early ancestors have felt.

The breezy narration contrasts delightfully with the heavy topics laden like buckshot throughout the book, set in the post-truth Now, and Carlstrom's unique voice is a breath of fresh air.

"Throwing stuff is a time-honored tradition of expressing disrespect, disapproval, or dislike of something...Back then, usually what got thrown were rotten eggs, because most people had their own chickens supplying them with a steady stream of eggs."