Month: August 2023

Finland, Sicily and something in between

TomAugust 12, 2023Articles, Travel

There probably couldn’t be two more dissimilar places than Sicily and Finland and, yet, somehow, I love them both. If Finland is calm and order, then Sicily is noise and chaos. In Finland, people would wait for the pedestrian’s green light to appear before they crossed the street — any street, even if it was…

Barbieland behind the curtain

TomAugust 12, 2023Articles, Cinema

It’s a Barbie world, sang a song, and now we hear the same tune in a movie.  But we do NOT live in a Barbie world.  If anything, it’s quite the opposite.  For all its defects and its shallow consumerism, Barbie’s world was kitsch but at least it was pink and cheerful.  But our modern…