Seeing and Believing 221 | Ang Lee’s Gemini Man and Vince Gilligan’s El Camino
Seeing & Beleiving is seeing double this week with Ang Lee’s Gemini Man starring Will Smith and Vince Gilligan’s El Camino starring Aaron Paul.
Not Like Me: The Irony of Heeding the Tragic Hero
Simply upholding these tragic hero figures as warnings ultimately cheapens our understanding of both human depravity, and, more consequently, the extent of grace.
Better Call Saul and the Ache for Approval
In Better Call Saul, James and Charles McGill mirror the relationship of the two brothers from the Parable of the Prodigal Son.
‘Better Call Saul’: What Makes a Man?
The central theme of ‘Better Call Saul’—Jimmy’s (later Saul) struggle with his identity as a man—takes the show to its loftiest heights.
1. Breaking Bad: “Implicating the Rest of Us in His Fall” #CaPC25
But what not everyone seems to have noticed is that with each triumph of the will and ego, Walt was descending further into badness.
You Can Keep Walter White. I’ll Take Inspector Foyle
The Case Against “The Case Against Breaking Bad”
Should we be more critical of Breaking Bad?
Breaking Bad Broken Down: “Blood Money”
“Will anyone come out redeemed? Is that even possible at this point?”
Live Free or Die Hard? Walter White’s Spectacular Imaginative Failure
How Walt’s descent into badness is a flight of imagination that is crashing to the ground.
