Oats Studios: Zygote (2017) – Die Like a Synth or Live Like a Human

For the next few episodes, I wanted to analyse something that everyone can watch for free on YouTube and Steam. Oats Studios, an independent film studio, was started by Oscar-nominated South African film-maker Neill Blomkamp in 2017. Some films that he has done are Elysium, Chappie, and of course, District 9. So, with that said,

District 9 (2009) – Transformation Through the Uncanny

“The uncanny is in reality Nothing new or alien, but something which is familiar and of old established in the mind and which has become alienated from it only through the process of repression” (Richard Kearney in ‘Strangers, Gods and Monsters’) There are many prejudices and injustices in the world that could leave a bad

Leave No Trace (2018) – Make Your Mark and Join the Hive

The welcoming of the outside, the forests and woodlands, Growing up to wander… Wandering outside in the rain, inside in your mind. Your thoughts are still your own. But that doesn’t mean you are the same as everyone else. There are many ways of living, Where you don’t have to disappear. Leave a trace so

Into The Wild (2017) – The Art of Losing Oneself

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; There is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in it’s roar; I love not man less, But Nature more…” (By Lord Byron) A college education can ensure you understand and remember our own human history.

Death Stranding Part 2 – The Journey West

Episode Two : The Journey West Within a created universe, there are different strands that both connect and tangle within each other. How characters are developed their behaviours, the history behind a made up world that can reflect certain aspects of ours, and moral of a story that essentially, in this case, saves the people

Death Stranding Part 1 – The Spectral Earth

Episode One : The Spectral Earth On this episode of Two Takes I have decided to do something different. Although the general theme of this podcast is films, with the analysis based on theories with insightful facts, would you say the same for a game? It is said that a game has a whole universe

I Origins (2014) – The Consequence of Consciousness

The faith in the spiritual unknown. The factual discoveries of the scientist. They collide through feeling and doubt And it is here that through their story leads the question of reincarnation. Would you want to remember your past life? Do you believe in the afterlife? What if you found reason for it By an unhappy

Still Alice (2014) – The Terror of Loss

“The art of losing isn’t hard to master: so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster” (by poet Elizabeth Bishop) Like a daydream, memories could perhaps filter in and out of our consciousness. This wanting of remembering but finding the fog too thick to remember it

Another Earth (2001) – Embracing the Doppelganger

What would we really like to see if we could stand outside of ourselves and look at us? We would like to see our best selves. A better version, the one we hold dear in our minds. Would it matter to you what other people might think? It shouldn’t. Because regret, bad decisions, those crossroads

John Wick (2014) – Help, Punish or Kill…

What’s in a name? A name that could curse the heavens, a name that condemns your life? Cursed. A cursed life. It’s the gut reaction of calling someone cursed, calling them names to place them in a different place from your own. Or is it another way to warn others? It is how you make