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fromIndieWire
3 days ago

'The Lowdown': Walter Mosley on Episode 7 and Writing a Crime Noir Where 'the Crime Is Original Sin'

Episode 7 exposes white male entitlement through political spectacle, violence, and familial denial while a detective's relentless pursuit confronts competing truths.
Film
fromwww.mercurynews.com
4 days ago

Review: Jafar Panahi's Accident' is the masterpiece Iran doesn't want you to see

Retribution, however satisfying, does not morally justify killing; vengeance, identity, and social injustice create compelling moral ambiguity around violent retribution.
Books
fromHarvard Gazette
1 week ago

Hope has a dark side in alum's 'A Guardian and a Thief' - Harvard Gazette

Climate-stricken Kolkata frames a week where two families confront love, hope, and moral ambiguity as emotional extremes intensify.
Video games
fromGameSpot
2 weeks ago

Shadow Of The Colossus Is A Powerful Fairy Tale Because It Resists Condemning The Player

Shadow of the Colossus uses a silent protagonist to create empathetic distance and frame a moral fable that complicates heroic violence.
Film
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

'It Was Just An Accident' Is A Darkly Comic Masterwork

A nighttime car accident links a driver and a prosthetic-legged ex-prisoner, triggering a complex revenge thriller with personal and social consequences.
Film
fromKqed
2 weeks ago

'It Was Just an Accident' Movingly Explores Violence and Forgiveness

Recognition of a presumed former torturer triggers abduction and a fraught search for identity, justice, and reconciliation in contemporary Iran.
fromSlate Magazine
3 weeks ago

A Master Filmmaker Made a Star-Studded New Movie About ... Cancel Culture. Uh-Oh.

The latest picture from beloved director Luca Guadagnino follows a Yale professor, Alma (Roberts), as she gets caught in the middle of a sexual assault allegation that her favorite student, Maggie (Ayo Edebiri), launches against her closest male colleague, Hank (Andrew Garfield). After the Hunt is intended to be a thought-provoking film that debates the existence of cancel culture and the way today's thick political climate affects how we view identity and claims of misconduct.
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Television
fromVulture
4 weeks ago

Peacemaker Recap: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

Peacemaker's penultimate episode examines moral ambiguity and perspective by complicating heroism, portraying characters whose actions reveal shifting virtues and flaws in an Alt-Evergreen Nazi universe.
fromBuzzFeed
1 month ago

The Fear That AI Could Take Your Job Isn't In Your Head. Here's The Group That's Most At Risk.

"One of the things we are seeing with AI is that it makes things too easy. We are seeing a decrease in willingness to struggle through hard things in this newer generation of employees," Kryscynski said. "If you want to stand out in the future workforce, then avoid offloading your thinking to AI and purposefully invest in challenging tasks that will challenge your brain to connect complex ideas, wrestle with moral ambiguities."
Artificial intelligence
Philosophy
fromApaonline
1 month ago

Ordinary Monsters in a Galaxy Far, Far Away

Moral ambiguity in Star Wars and Andor reveals how ordinary ethical frameworks fail under authoritarian pressures, offering both warning and hope through complex character choices.
Television
fromBustle
1 month ago

'Reasonable Doubt' Is The Steamy Legal Drama Shondaland Fans Need To Watch

Reasonable Doubt portrays a morally ambiguous legal drama centered on defense attorney Jax Stewart balancing complex cases, motherhood, and a rocky marriage.
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

A Bleak World Without Women

In Mare of Easttown, the previous Delaware County-set series that Brad Ingelsby made for HBO, solving crimes was women's work: Kate Winslet's blowsy, grimacing turn as a detective in a Philly exurb was thrilling to watch not just for her flattened vowels and bone-deep sighs but for her character's authority. Looking more exhausted than any TV character in recent memory, Mare investigated murders, raised her grandson, and presided over her community with questionable ethics but unfailing care.
Television
Television
fromVulture
2 months ago

Hostage Finale Recap: People Want the Truth

The finale centers on family-driven moral ambiguity, showing sacrifice, political betrayal, and contested responsibility for deadly choices in crisis.
fromPolygon
3 months ago

The Last of Us Part 2's story is just fine the way it is

The Last of Us Part 2's narrative presents moral ambiguity through the intertwined fates of Ellie and Abby, challenging players to engage with complex themes of revenge and consequence.
Video games
Film
fromtime.com
4 months ago

First Look: Smoke Goes Inside the Mind of a Real-Life Serial Arsonist

The story examines the psychological complexities surrounding a series of arson fires that resulted in multiple casualties.
LA Kings
fromDecider
6 months ago

Stream It Or Skip It: 'Andor' Season 2 on Disney+, where Cassian transforms into the 'Rogue One' rebel hero

Cassian Andor evolves from self-interest to rebellion, embodying the series' theme of moral ambiguity.
Video games
fromIndieWire
6 months ago

'The Last of Us' Review: Episode 2 Rolls Out Two Astonishing Attacks - Spoilers

Moral ambiguity and the harshness of revenge are central themes in 'The Last of Us' Season 2, Episode 2.
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