Archives for January 2017

Archetypes: Film: Review: ‘A United Kingdom’ (2017)

January 31, 2017 by Coeli Carr

A United Kingdom, directed by Amma Asante and based on a true story, wastes no time announcing its Uranian theme of breaking with tradition. On the one hand, the upheaval is personal. In 1947 Englishwoman Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike) attends a dance with her sister (Laura Carmichael) and has one of those love-at-first-sight moments with […]

Filed Under: Film, Moon, Saturn, Uranus Tagged With: a united kingdom, amma asante, archetypes, Astrology, david oyelowo, film, Movies, review, rosamund pike

Archetypes: Film: ‘Split’: The Twist, Jung and The Beast (2017)

January 20, 2017 by Coeli Carr

This post contains spoilers. Flashbacks in a movie typically reference what’s going on in the present, and the ones in M. Night Shyamalan’s Split are no different. Kevin (James McAvoy), a man with multiple-personality disorder – with a yet-to-emerge master persona, The Beast – has kidnapped three female teens, one of whom is Casey (Anna […]

Filed Under: Film, Pluto Tagged With: anya taylor-joy, archetypes, Astrology, film, jung, m. night shyamalan, Movies, Pluto, review, sacred food, split, twist, twist ending

Archetypes: Film: Review: ‘Split’ (2017)

January 17, 2017 by Coeli Carr

Bickering families are ugly, whether they’re blood kin, feuding gods and goddesses, or archetypes all scrambling for a place in the sun. In Split, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, a man named Kevin (James McAvoy), who has dissociative identity disorder, is the vessel containing 23 personalities, a bit like someone wielding a multiple […]

Filed Under: Film, Pluto, Saturn Tagged With: anya taylor-joy, archetypes, Astrology, betty buckley, film, james mcavoy, m. night shyamalan, Movies, review, split

Archives for January 2017

Archetypes: Film: Review: ‘A United Kingdom’ (2017)

Archetypes: Film: ‘Split’: The Twist, Jung and The Beast (2017)

Archetypes: Film: Review: ‘Split’ (2017)

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